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The 2024 bronze medalist, Fred Kerley, was arrested on Thursday, a few days before he was preparing to compete during a track competition, for having allegedly struck his ex-girlfriend.
According to TMZ, citing an arrest report, Dania Beach police arrived in a hotel in southern Florida before 8:00 am, Huympic Hurdler Alaysha Johnson said that Kerley had struck him during a packaging appointment for competition.
Kerley said he “went to F – K everyone here,” Johnson said.
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Fred Kerley (United States) in a round of 100 meters from La Ronde 1 during the Paris 2024 summer Olympic Games at Stade de France. (Andrew Nelles-USA today Sports)
Kerley would have struck Johnson in the face, which makes his nose bleed. Police have said that injuries, “said their statements.”
Kerley was to appear at 100 meters on Saturday and the 200 meters on Sunday during the Grand Slam event on the track this weekend. The event later confirmed that Kerley would not compete.
The New York Post reported that Kerley had been reserved on an accusation of first degree offense.
In January, Kerley was struck by an accusation of domestic violence in an incident unrelated to last year, after being arrested following an altercation of the police.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by PK Press Club Digital, Kerley and his wife entered a verbal dispute, then physical on May 6, 2024 – his birthday – when Kerley’s wife was in contact with an “unknown person on Instagram”.
Fred Kerley (United States) famous after winning bronze in the 100m male final at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games at Stade de France. (Yukihito taguchi-Usa today Sports)
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Kerley approached his wife aggressively, and she struck him out of fear, according to the Affidavit. Kerley then “caught the victim, pushed him to the ground, surrounded his arm around his neck and hampered his breathing”.
A probable cause alert was then registered in the prison system, and was then charged after the January arrest.
Kerley won a bronze medal in Paris in summer at 100 meters, while his teammate Noah Lyles won his first Olympic gold. Kerley won the 2022 world championships in the event and Silver at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
He also has world championships at the 4×400 meter relay in 2019 and the 4×100 meter relay in 2023.
Kerley was part of the 4×100 meter team in Paris which was disqualified due to a sloppy transfer. Lyles thought of being part of this team but fell ill with Covid earlier in the week, which helped to fail him at 200 meters, an event for which he had been the big favorite.
Fred Kerley participated in the first round of the 100 meter male on the second day of the American Olympic team athletics trials 2024 in Hayward Field on June 22, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon. (Patrick Smith / Getty Images)
Kerley accused the United States Track and Field Association of playing favorites by adding Lyles to the 4×400 meter team at the 2024 World Championships.
