9:36 p.m. – Andrew Lowery threw the first punch in the bar brawl, according to an Associated Press report. Two Shady’s employees told the AP that Lowery had been kicked out of the bar prior to the incident.
Lowery was asked to leave the bar around 1:30 a.m. when he appeared to be harassing a woman. Lowery became involved in a fight minutes later, the employees told the AP.
Door manager Jordan Neldare told the AP that quarterback Jordan Jefferson was “standing by himself and looking upset” while part of the fight took place.
7:30 p.m – The Daily Reveille obtained a copy of a temporary restraining order against Andrew Lowery,  filed on Wednesday by 18-year-old Elizabeth Siadous. The order restricts Lowery from contacting Siadous, harassing her, or coming within 100 yards of her. The order will expire on Sept. 21.
2:55 p.m. — Baton Rouge Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Don Stone reports senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson is not being arrested.
“[Jefferson] has not been arrested. There’s no warrant for an arrest,” said Stone. He doesn’t know where arrest rumor started.
1:50 p.m. — Witnesses name senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson and sophomore linebacker Josh Johns as assailants in the infamous bar fight early Friday morning, according to a Baton Rouge police incident report.
Officers interviewed Baton Rouge resident Andrew Lowery and a female witness outside Shady’s bar after the altercation. Lowery said he was “punched and kicked several times” by a host of people in the parking lot.
The female witness told police Jefferson kicked Lowery in the head.
Lowery also told police he was intervening on the behalf of an unidentified male, who was pulled out of his car by a crowd of people, possibly including LSU football players. Lowery told authorities he pulled the man out of the fracas and pushed him back into his car. After that, Lowery said the suspects then began to beat him.
The female witness confirmed Lowery’s account, and told police she recognized some of the assailants were football players, She also confirmed Jefferson and Johns were present. She also said she could identify the other players involved through pictures if needed.
Lowery clarified that he believed Jefferson and Johns were two of his attackers. He declined medical attention at the scene, but later went to the hospital where he was treated and released.
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