Police say a student physically assaulted Tiger Band Director Roy King before Saturday’s football game against West Virginia.
The incident occurred at 6:20 p.m. as the band was marching from the band hall to Tiger Stadium, said Det. Kevin Scott, LSUPD spokesman.
Morris Jones, 24, of Beaumont, Texas, was standing on the sidewalk when King asked him to step aside for the band, Scott said. Jones refused to move, Scott said, and when he was asked to move again, the student proceeded to “run and knock into” King.
Scott said after being asked to move again, Jones physically assaulted King a second time.
“He either pushed or punched him,” Scott said. “I’m not sure which of the two. We just know it was a battery.”
State police, who were escorting the band at the time, detained Jones and brought him to the LSU Police Department, Scott said. Scott said King did not want press any battery charges but had police refer Jones to the dean of students.
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