Eastern Kentucky University football player Colton Scurry was badly beaten in a fight at a bar in Madison County. The incident happened around 1:00 a.m. Sunday inside of JerZees in Richmond. Scurry’s father Jeff confirmed that his son sustained multiple facial fractures and that a bottle had been broken over his head. He wouldn’t speak further on the incident that’s currently under investigation but witnesses there did give a bit more information.
via NBC LEX18:
The owner of JerZees told LEX 18’s Josh Breslow that Colton Scurry, a 20-year-old EKU offensive lineman was “roughed up pretty good.”
“My boyfriend’s a bouncer there,” Alex Carpenter, an EKU student told LEX 18. “He just said that it was 3 UK players who jumped one of our Eastern football players. And they broke a bottle over his face. They had to take him to the hospital. He had to get some stitches in his face.”
UK Athletics will not comment on the incident at this time but EKU did release this statement:
“We are currently investigating information reported to us regarding a possible assault on one of our students in an off-campus location, as well as a possible related incident in Telford Hall that may have occurred late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. We can not divulge the the name the students who may have been involved at this time. This is all I know at this time.”
An unconfirmed picture of Scurry’s injuries is in the gallery above.
