COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -Missouri senior guard Stefhon Hannah was arrested Friday on third-degree assault charges in a nightclub brawl that left him with a broken jaw.
Hannah, Missouri’s leading scorer the past two seasons, and his attorney met with police Friday afternoon to discuss his involvement in a Jan. 27 altercation at the Athena nightclub. Hannah gave no statement and was released on his signature.
Police said in a statement the incident remained under investigation but said no further arrests were expected.
A school spokesman didn’t immediately return a telephone message from the AP.
A second starting guard, Jason Horton, was arrested on suspicion of third-degree misdemeanor assault on Feb. 1 after a 26-year-old Athena employee told police Horton repeatedly punched him in the face.
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Hannah, averaging 14.7 points, is still suspended. Police had been waiting for him to return to the campus from his home in Chicago, where he had been recovering from the injury that could sideline him for the rest of the season.
The incident occurred hours after Missouri returned from its first road victory of the season, a win at Colorado that had been viewed as a turning point.
M on Saturday. The school lost to Nebraska with an eight-man roster that included two walk-ons in the first game since the suspension, upset No. 22 Kansas State after Lyons and Brown were reinstated, and lost at Kansas with a nearly full roster fortified by the return of Horton and Butterfield.
The altercation involving Hannah is the latest in a series of off-court incidents marring Anderson’s second season.
Butterfield has been suspended twice, the first following an arrest for punching a former girlfriend last summer. He pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence and six months’ probation when the charge was downgraded to peace disturbance.
DeMarre Carroll, Anderson’s nephew, was shot in the ankle outside a downtown club while trying to break up a fight. Mike Anderson Jr., the coach’s son and a backup guard, was arrested for DUI last year and suspended for a game.
Kalen Grimes, the leading rebounder last season, was kicked off the team after being arrested for hitting a man in the face with the butt of a shotgun in St. Louis in July.
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