Trevone Boykin has to stay away from the bar scene, and he may have just watched his NFL career crash and burn.
The Seattle Seahawks backup QB was arrested in Dallas early Monday morning after a car he was in crashed into a bar according to TMZ Sports.
Boykin — a former star QB at TCU — was a passenger in the car, according to FOX 4 in Dallas. The driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
Boykin was also taken into custody and now faces drug and public intoxication charges. We’re told Boykin is accused of being in possession of more than 2 ounces of marijuana.
The car Boykin was in struck 8 people on the sidewalk and also struck a bartender inside the location as the vehicle barreled through the front wall.
Boykin was arrested for a bar fight back in 2015 before TCU played in the Alamo Bowl.
Here is more information on exactly what happened.
A statement from the Dallas Police Department states Boykin was a passenger in a car that hit the Sidebar Bar in Dallas, also hitting seven people on a crowded sidewalk. Seven people (upgrade from earlier reports, which said three) were taken to the hospital with injuries that included a broken ankle and a dislocated arm, according to Fox4News, but none had life-threatening injuries. The statement says bartender was injured when bottles of alcohol and a large cooler fell.
The reports state the car was driven by a 26-year-old woman, Shabrika Bailey, who Fox4News.com reports say police claim was drunk when she pulled out of a parking garage and backed into the front of the Sidebar Bar. According to a police statement, the car “accelerated in reverse at a high rate of speed,” before hitting the pedestrians and the bar.