Kansas City receiver Xavier Worthy arrested in Texas on family violence assault charge

Kansas City rookie Xavier Worthy has been arrested connected a felony home unit charge, the 2nd high-profile wide receiver from the reigning AFC champions to beryllium facing superior ineligible occupation successful Texas successful little than a year.

Williamson County online jailhouse records Saturday showed that Worthy was arrested Friday by deputies and held successful the region jailhouse connected a complaint of battle connected a household oregon household subordinate successful which their enactment was impeded, oregon choking successful communal terms.

Williamson County includes parts of Austin, wherever Worthy played assemblage shot astatine the University of Texas.

In a statement, Worthy's attorneys, Chip Lewis and Sam Bassett, said their lawsuit was guiltless of the complaint against him.

His attorneys said the allegation was made by a pistillate who had been surviving successful Worthy's location successful Williamson County. The connection said the pistillate had been asked to permission the location aggregate times implicit the past 2 weeks "upon find of her infidelity."

"She has refused to vacate the residence and made a fig of extortive efforts anterior to resorting to this baseless allegation against Mr. Worthy," the connection said. "The complainant further destroyed a country successful the residence, scratched Mr. Worthy's look and ripped retired parts of his hair, which determination is photographic grounds of. Worthy told instrumentality enforcement astatine the clip of the incidental helium did not privation to property charges against the complainant."

The squad told The Associated Press connected Saturday that they were alert of the concern and inactive gathering information.

Under Texas law, impeding breathing means "intentionally, knowingly oregon recklessly impeding the mean breathing oregon circulation of the humor of the idiosyncratic by applying unit to the person's pharynx oregon cervix oregon by blocking the person's chemoreceptor oregon mouth."

The complaint is simply a third-degree felony successful Texas, with a imaginable punishment of 2 to 10 years successful prison. Jail records showed Worthy had not yet posted enslaved by Saturday morning. The records did not person immoderate details of the apprehension oregon database an attorney.

Key player

Worthy was chosen by Kansas City with the 28th wide prime successful past year's draught aft mounting the grounds for the fastest 40-yard dash astatine the NFL combine. He got disconnected to a speedy commencement by scoring a brace of touchdowns successful his NFL debut, and aft a midseason lull, helium became the team's go-to wide receiver arsenic they chased an unprecedented 3rd consecutive Super Bowl title.

Worthy finished with 59 catches for 638 yards and six TDs portion moving 20 times for 104 yards and 3 much scores.

He was 1 of the fewer agleam spots for K.C. successful a 40-22 nonaccomplishment to Philadelphia successful the Super Bowl, too. Worthy caught each 8 of his targets for 157 yards and a brace of touchdowns astatine the Superdome successful New Orleans.

Kansas City came to trust connected Worthy successful portion due to the fact that of a season-ending wounded to wide receiver Rashee Rice, who was coming disconnected a superb rookie play of his own. Rice caught 24 passes for 288 yards and 2 TDs successful 4 games earlier getting hurt.

Rice and different driver, Theodore Knox, were progressive successful a high-speed car clang successful March 2024 that triggered a concatenation absorption connected a road successful Dallas, adjacent to wherever helium had played assemblage shot astatine SMU. Rice is presently facing astatine slightest 2 civilian lawsuits on with galore transgression charges for his relation successful the wreck.

Rice turned himself successful pursuing the crash, and his attorney, Texas Sen. Royce West, said that the wide receiver admitted that helium was driving the Lamborghini involved. Rice besides posted connected societal media that helium took work for his relation successful the crash.