(Stillwater, Okla.) — Former OSU football player Tyreek D’Shaun Hill, who was dismissed from the team within hours after being charged with choking his pregnant girlfriend, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of domestic assault and battery by strangulation.
Hill was placed on three years’ probation Friday with extensive conditions including having a domestic abuse evaluation, performing any recommended follow-up, having an anger management course, completing a 52-week batterers’ program, and providing proof of full-time employment or full-time student status.
Hill was also ordered to provide a DNA sample, for which he must pay a $150 fee, as well as a $500 fine, a $150 contribution to the victims’ compensation fund and $263 in restitution, court records show.
Hill was arrested two weeks before Christmas at his Stillwater residence at 11:12 p.m., about 90 minutes after a police officer was sent to the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room on an assault investigation, court records show.
His 20-year-old girlfriend, who said she was eight weeks’ pregnant with Hill’s child, said they had been dating about six months, according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Kyle Bruce.
She said that “Hill threw her around like a rag doll,” on Dec. 11, 2014, the affidavit said.
When Stillwater Police Officer Justin Reedy saw her that night in the emergency room, she had a mark under her left eye that was starting to turn a dark shade of red and purple, as well as a swelling injury to her upper lip, the affidavit said.
She had injuries on the left, right and front of her neck below the chin that were consistent with her statements that she was choked by Hill, the affidavit said.
The pregnant woman said “Hill struck her in the stomach several times,” the affidavit said.
She said that she was choked twice, the affidavit said.
“The first time, Hill was standing in front of her and had his hands together grabbing her neck,” the affidavit said.
She said Hill was pinning her against a wall “and banging her head against the wall as he was holding onto her neck,” the affidavit said.
Asked if she was unable to breathe, the woman responded, “not this time,” the affidavit said.
Asked by Officer Bruce what she meant, she described being thrown to the ground, grabbed by her hair and picked up, the affidavit said.
“Hill was standing behind her and grabbed her around the neck using his arm,” in a headlock, the affidavit said.
She said she cried out to Hill, “Let me go, I can’t breathe,” the affidavit said.
She said she “repeated this plea several times before Hill released her from the hold he had of her neck,” the affidavit said.
Because Hill was given a deferred sentence Friday by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler, he will not have a criminal record of domestic violence if he successfully completes his probation.
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