Police investigating alleged assault at fraternity that allegedly involved WKU players

Western Kentucky football players were allegedly part of an assault at a fraternity house according to Bowling Green police.

The alleged incident involving the publicly unidentified players took place Sunday night. The report, obtained by both the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Bowling Green Daily News, is redacted and  obscures names. But it contains references to football players and notes the incident allegedly started when an assault and person with a gun was reported at the Pi Kappa Alpha house.

Four suspects are accused of fourth-degree assault and the alleged victims are a former fraternity member and current Pike member. Both suffered minor injuries. From 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, according to the report. 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, the report said. 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.

The report, also obtained by TMZ, states police pulled over a white Volkswagen that allegedly left the scene. Inside the vehicle was at least one football player, who told police that he and teammates had returned to the house Sunday night because of an assault that happened Saturday night.

A spokesperson for the football team told both outlets the program was aware of the allegations and was cooperating with police. A spokesperson for the police department told the Courier-Journal no charges have been filed and no arrests have been made.

Western Kentucky was 10-3 in 2016 and coach Jeff Brohm went to Purdue in December following WKU’s second-straight Conference USA title. The school hired Notre Dame offensive coordinator Mike Sanford to replace Brohm.

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