Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 28, 2010 9:10:22 GMT -5
Suspended HPU player charged in assault
Thursday, January 28, 2010
(Updated 8:48 am)
By High Point Enterprise
HIGH POINT — A High Point University basketball player who has been suspended from the team was arrested earlier this month on a felony assault charge.
Jourdan Morris is accused of grabbing a female student by the throat and striking her with his fist in a parking lot near campus on Jan. 17, according to police and court records.
Morris, a 21-year-old junior forward from Bowie, Md., was charged later that day with assault by strangulation inflicting serious injury, which is a low-level felony, and assault on a female, a misdemeanor, according to court records. He was released from custody the same day after posting a $2,000 bond.
High Point Coach Scott Cherry announced last weekend that Morris had been suspended indefinitely from the team for an unspecified violation of team rules. Morris is still enrolled at the university.
According to a police report, an officer responded to the university at about 11:20 a.m. on Jan. 17 to investigate an assault call. The alleged victim told the officer she was assaulted in the parking lot of a North Avenue residence between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. that day. The officer obtained an arrest warrant for Morris, who was taken into custody a few hours later.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2010/01/28/article/ex_hpu_player_charged_in_assault
Thursday, January 28, 2010
(Updated 8:48 am)
By High Point Enterprise
HIGH POINT — A High Point University basketball player who has been suspended from the team was arrested earlier this month on a felony assault charge.
Jourdan Morris is accused of grabbing a female student by the throat and striking her with his fist in a parking lot near campus on Jan. 17, according to police and court records.
Morris, a 21-year-old junior forward from Bowie, Md., was charged later that day with assault by strangulation inflicting serious injury, which is a low-level felony, and assault on a female, a misdemeanor, according to court records. He was released from custody the same day after posting a $2,000 bond.
High Point Coach Scott Cherry announced last weekend that Morris had been suspended indefinitely from the team for an unspecified violation of team rules. Morris is still enrolled at the university.
According to a police report, an officer responded to the university at about 11:20 a.m. on Jan. 17 to investigate an assault call. The alleged victim told the officer she was assaulted in the parking lot of a North Avenue residence between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. that day. The officer obtained an arrest warrant for Morris, who was taken into custody a few hours later.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2010/01/28/article/ex_hpu_player_charged_in_assault
