The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office has now filed an aggravated assault charge against former TCU safety Jacob Fields, according to court documents.
Fields, 21, is accused of punching and kicking wide receiver Dozie Ezukanma in the head on Aug. 13 inside the football team’s locker room. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Ezukanma spent three days in the hospital with a brain bleed and concussion.
Fields was dismissed from the team on Aug. 18 and arrested on Aug. 30.
Prosecutors filed the complaint against Fields on Wednesday morning, Sept. 23, after reviewing information sent over from TCU police.
Fields’ agent, Phillip ‘Red’ Miller of PM3 Sports, said in a statement after the former safety’s arrest that Fields turned himself in voluntarily.
The affidavit says Fields was upset that Ezukanma had been performing better than him in practice before the assault. Ezukanma later showed police text messages from Fields apologizing and saying he wished he could undo what happened.
“I made an emotional decision cause how I felt played the last few practices,” the texts said. “I’ll pay every hospital bill and then some to make this right.”
Fields’ attorney, Coby DuBose, said the team’s coaches were aware of tensions and failed to step in before things boiled over into a locker room fight. DuBose also pushed back on the affidavit’s claim that Fields sucker-punched Ezukanma and then kicked him in the head after he fell.
A source inside the TCU football program disputed DuBose’s version, and athletic director Mike Buddie said in a statement that the coaching staff handled the situation the right way.
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