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Western Kentucky University | Report: WKU football players involved in assault

 

Western Kentucky University football players were allegedly involved in an assault that took place at a fraternity house near campus Sunday night, police said.

 

Bowling Green Police responded around 11 p.m. Sunday to reports of an assault and a person with a gun at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, located adjacent to campus at 1328 Center St., according to a police report obtained by the Courier-Journal.

 

The heavily redacted report did not release the name of the football players involved and described four suspects who allegedly "assaulted the victim with their hands and feet."

 

A 33-year-old fraternity alumnus and a 21-year-old who lived at the Pike house were beaten and ended up with minor injuries, the report said. Police said the victims were strangers to the four suspects.

 

The fight had dissipated by the time officers arrived, but a witness told police he believed the gate to the Pike house had been knocked down, the report said. The witness pointed police to a car that had fled the scene, and officers found a member of the WKU football team and another passenger inside the car.

 

The football player told police he and other teammates had gone to the Pike fraternity house Sunday in response to an assault that happened there Saturday, the report said. He said two people had been "jumped" while at a party at the house Saturday night but said he was not involved in Sunday's fight.

 

In an email to the Courier-Journal on Tuesday, WKU athletics department spokesman Kyle Neaves wrote, "We are aware of the allegations involving a few members of our football team. We are cooperating fully with the authorities. However, at this time, we have not received a police report and cannot provide further comment."

 

No formal charges have been filed yet, Bowling Green Police Department spokesman Ronnie Ward told the Courier-Journal.

 

The 21-year-old Pike member told police he called the 33-year-old alumnus to tell him that several football players were outside in the back of the house trying to fight. The alumnus said he came to get the football players to leave peacefully. The fraternity member told police he saw the football players threaten the alumnus and then tackle him through the fence at the back of the house and begin punching and kicking him. The 21-year-old was injured when he stepped in to help defend the alumnus.

 

The alumnus told police he thought he saw outlines of guns in the waistbands of several of the people who attacked him and identified one of the supposedly armed suspects as a football player. Police searched that player's dorm room and did not find any guns. The player admitted to being at the scene of the fight but said he was trying to convince other team members to leave the alumnus alone. However, he pointed to pants and shoes he was wearing and told an officer, "You can see the grass stains where I tackled the guy." The player also had fresh scrapes on his left knuckles.

 

Neaves told the Courier-Journal that the athletics department adheres to the weapons policy outlined in WKU's student handbook, which prohibits carrying a gun outside of a car on any university-owned or controlled property. The Pike house is located less than half a mile from the edge of campus.

 

Police watched surveillance video of the assault, according to the report. The video showed someone placing an object in a Styrofoam box before the fight broke out, and officers later found a box-cutter knife in the box at the scene. Police did not recover a gun.

 

The report said a witness told police he received a text message from an unknown person that read, "Let Pike know they got something coming," and said two people also approached him earlier Sunday evening to ask if he was a member of the fraternity. One of the people threatened the witness, telling him he was "coming with his squad, be ready." The same witness also saw a Snapchat photo from a person whose name was redacted from the report. The caption of the photo said, "Pikes will see me soon."

 

Officers also said they found a black mask inside the pocket of one person who was interviewed at the scene.

 

The case remains open and no arrests have been made.

 

This story will be updated.

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woodsrider

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33 and still hanging around the frat house? #NeverGraduate

 

Dudes jumped a football player then called the cops when the football team showed up to even things out. Pansies.

Guess I'm lost. Where did it say they jumped a football player? Sounds like the football players started it, then called more to come. The video shows 10 or 12 jumping 2 guys.

 

My nephew is pledging Pike and was there but I haven't talked to him yet to see what happened.

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Guess I'm lost. Where did it say they jumped a football player? Sounds like the football players started it, then called more to come. The video shows 10 or 12 jumping 2 guys.

 

My nephew is pledging Pike and was there but I haven't talked to him yet to see what happened.

 

"The football player told police he and other teammates had gone to the Pike fraternity house Sunday in response to an assault that happened there Saturday, the report said. He said two people had been "jumped" while at a party at the house Saturday night but said he was not involved in Sunday's fight."

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Having been in a fraternity and knowing many others in a fraternity and being around the college scene in general, I can count on one hand where someone is "jumped" out of the middle of nowhere. You combine alcohol, girls, testosterone, etc. there is a good chance a fight will take place at some point. I am not excusing the actions of either side, I'm just always skeptical of the "I was jumped" line.

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Having been in a fraternity and knowing many others in a fraternity and being around the college scene in general, I can count on one hand where someone is "jumped" out of the middle of nowhere. You combine alcohol, girls, testosterone, etc. there is a good chance a fight will take place at some point. I am not excusing the actions of either side, I'm just always skeptical of the "I was jumped" line.

 

My guess is there was a fight Saturday and the fraternity outnumbered the football players so they got their tail kicked. Then came back Sunday with reinforcements. I'd say this situation happens a lot.

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My guess is there was a fight Saturday and the fraternity outnumbered the football players so they got their tail kicked. Then came back Sunday with reinforcements. I'd say this situation happens a lot.

 

Exactly. A fight started between a football player and another guy, and there was a scuffle between the two football guys and a handful of fraternity guys. They came back the next day to clean house. They should know from football they never get the person that commits the penalty, but rather the one that retaliates :D

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Here's probably what really happened...PIKE's had a party Saturday night and the football players showed up trying to get into the party. They were told to leave and got mad. Then one thing led to another.

 

Then they decided to come back Sunday to settle the score.

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