A former NFL linebacker has been charged with attacking a security guard and a deputy while detained at a hospital in Indianapolis, authorities said.
Antonio Morrison, a fourth-round pick by the Indianapolis Colts in 2016, was charged Tuesday in a May 14 attack at Community Hospital North in Indianapolis, where the onetime inside linebacker was housed in a behavioral health wing after allegedly intimidating a neighbor with whom he was arguing, the Indianapolis Star reports.
A responding Marion County deputy found Morrison, 25, banging on a nursing station door through Plexiglas while threatening to harm staffers and security officers at the hospital, a probable cause affidavit shows.
The deputy, Charles Bollinger, could not get into the unit at first as Morrison held the door shut, but Bollinger, a second Marion County deputy and a security guard managed to make their way into the secured unit moments later, authorities said.
Antonio Morrison has not appeared in an NFL game since the 2018/19 season.Getty ImagesMorrison then ran at deputy Kurt Meuris and hospital security guard James Blaydoe, punching the officer in the head and mouth. Blaydoe managed to fend off Morrison’s punches, the affidavit states.
Morrison kept resisting orders to comply until Bollinger used a stun gun on him. He was then handcuffed, deputies said.
Morrison, whose attorney declined to comment when reached by the newspaper Wednesday, is facing charges including felony counts of battery with bodily injury to a public safety officer and resisting law enforcement.
He remained held without bail Thursday at the Marion County Jail ahead of his next court date on July 7, records show.
The alleged attack took place weeks after Morrison was charged with a felony count of intimidation after a neighbor in Carmel told police he threatened to kill him on April 23, the newspaper reports.
The purported threat came one day after Morrison accused the man of “stepping into his space” and making lewd comments, including, “I am going to screw your wife,” Carmel police said.
Morrison’s neighbor said the alleged threat left him in fear of his life, an affidavit shows.
Morrison, who was traded by the Colts to the Green Bay Packers in 2018, was waived by the team in March 2019.
