LSU sophomore running back Jeremy Hill and an accomplice were recorded “giving each other high fives and flaunting” after allegedly attacking a 20-year-old fight victim Saturday morning, according to the police report obtained by The Daily Reveille on Tuesday.
Hill was charged with one count of simple battery in connection with the tussle that took place outside of Reggie’s Bar at 1100 Bob Pettit Blvd., while another suspect remains at large.
Baton Rouge police were dispatched to the scene at approximately 2:13 a.m., according to the report, where Officer Clifford Crouch was able to locate the victim.
According to the report, the victim told Crouch he was struck in the head “two or three times” and told the officer he only remembers waking up on the ground after absorbing the second blow – but he did provide officers with a license plate number of the suspect.
“I observed [the victim’s] hands to have minor cuts, his clothes to be in disarray, a sway while he stood and a lump on the back of his head,” Crouch wrote in the report.
After initially refusing medical attention, the victim told Crouch he would get a ride and go to the hospital.
Crouch wrote that several witnesses came forward with videos of the altercation as officers arrived at the scene.
In one video, the victim gets up off the ground and is seen walking away from Hill and his accomplice, according to the report.
Then, as the report indicates, the duo approached the victim from behind and Hill landed a punch behind the victim’s left ear. The unknown suspect followed with another punch, at which point the victim fell to the ground.
“You can then see Hill and the unknown suspect giving each other high fives and flaunting in front of [the victim],” the report states. “You then hear the video operator state ‘Jeremy Hill punching people.’”
Crouch contacted LSUPD for assistance in locating Hill and was led to West Campus Apartments, where Hill lives but was nowhere to be found.
At approximately 3:50 a.m., LSUPD detained Hill in the WCA parking lot. Crouch then arrived to handcuff Hill and transport him to the 2nd District Precinct.
Hill acknowledged being in Tigerland at the time of the incident but denied being involved in a “fistic altercation.”
“I advised Hill I had a video that showed him striking [the victim],” Crouch wrote. “Hill states he never hit [the victim]. I showed the video to Hill, and he still denied striking [the victim].”
Hill was suspended indefinitely from the Tiger football team on Monday and coach Les Miles said in a news release he would not comment further until the matter had run its legal course.
A Redemptorist High product, Hill rushed for 755 yards to lead LSU last season as a true freshman.
No stranger to run-ins with the law, Hill was arrested in 2011 on charges of oral sexual battery that involved a 14-year-old girl at Redemptorist. He pleaded guilty to carnal knowledge of a juvenile, a reduced misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to probation for two years.
It is unclear how his most recent arrest will conflict with his probation.