Xavier Worthy was launched Saturday after a district lawyer in Texas declined to pursue prices in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs broad receiver following an arrest through which he had been accused of felony home violence.
Williamson County district lawyer Shawn Dick instructed the Austin American-Statesman his workplace had spoken with witnesses and was not accepting the case at the moment. He additionally stated Worthy and his legal professionals have been absolutely cooperating with the investigation.
Data confirmed that Worthy had been arrested Friday by deputies and held within the county jail on a cost of assault on a household or family member through which their breath was impeded, or choking in frequent phrases. The net courtroom itemizing for the case was up to date to “dismissed/declined” later Saturday.
Williamson County contains elements of Austin, the place Worthy performed school soccer on the College of Texas.
In a press release, Worthy’s attorneys, Chip Lewis and Sam Bassett, stated their consumer was harmless of the cost in opposition to him. They stated the allegation was made by a feminine who had been residing in Worthy’s house, and that she had been requested to go away the house a number of instances over the past two weeks “upon discovery of her infidelity”.
“She has refused to vacate the residence and made quite a few extortive efforts previous to resorting to this baseless allegation in opposition to Mr Worthy,” the legal professionals’ assertion stated. “The complainant additional destroyed a room within the residence, scratched Mr. Worthy’s face and ripped out elements of his hair, which there’s photographic proof of. Worthy instructed regulation enforcement on the time of the incident he didn’t need to press prices in opposition to the complainant.”
The Chiefs instructed the Related Press on Saturday that they have been conscious of the scenario and nonetheless gathering info.
Below Texas regulation, impeding respiration means “deliberately, knowingly or recklessly impeding the conventional respiration or circulation of the blood of the individual by making use of stress to the individual’s throat or neck or by blocking the individual’s nostril or mouth”.
Worthy was chosen by the Chiefs with the twenty eighth total decide in final 12 months’s draft after setting the file for the quickest 40-yard sprint on the NFL mix. He bought off to a fast begin by scoring a pair of touchdowns in his NFL debut, and after a midseason lull, he turned the Chiefs’ go-to broad receiver as they chased an unprecedented third consecutive Tremendous Bowl title.
Worthy completed with 59 catches for 638 yards and 6 TDs whereas operating 20 instances for 104 yards and three extra scores.
He was one of many few vivid spots for the Chiefs in a 40-22 loss to Philadelphia within the Tremendous Bowl, too. Worthy caught all eight of his targets for 157 yards and a pair of touchdowns on the Superdome in New Orleans.
The Chiefs got here to depend on Worthy partially due to a season-ending harm to broad receiver Rashee Rice, who was coming off a superb rookie season of his personal. Rice caught 24 passes for 288 yards and two TDs in 4 video games earlier than getting harm.
Rice and one other driver, Theodore Knox, have been concerned in a high-speed automotive crash in March 2024 that triggered a series response on a freeway in Dallas, near the place he had performed school soccer at SMU. Rice is at the moment going through at the least two civil lawsuits together with quite a few felony prices for his position within the wreck.
Rice turned himself in following the crash, and his lawyer, Texas senator Royce West, stated that the broad receiver admitted that he was driving the Lamborghini concerned. Rice additionally posted on social media that he took accountability for his position within the crash.
