{"id":1786019,"date":"2022-12-24T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786019"},"modified":"2022-12-24T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T23:03:23","slug":"fiancee-of-texas-basketball-coach-changes-story-he-didnt-strangle-me-he-acted-in-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fiancee-of-texas-basketball-coach-changes-story-he-didnt-strangle-me-he-acted-in-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianc\u00e9e Of Texas Basketball Coach Changes Story: He Didn\u2019t Strangle Me, He Acted In Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffiancee-of-texas-basketball-coach-changes-story-he-didnt-strangle-me-he-acted-in-self-defense%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The fianc\u00e9e of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/university-of-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Texas<\/a> head men\u2019s basketball coach Chris Beard said Friday that he did not strangle her and she did not want him arrested, a stark turn around from the story that emerged early this month.<\/p>\n<p>Beard, 49, was arrested on December 12 after the Austin Police Department reportedly responded to a \u201cdisturbance hot shot,\u201d which the department says are incidents that \u201care in progress and are an immediate threat to life and\/or public safety (i.e. shootings, stabbings, rapes, riots).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fianc\u00e9e Randi Trew <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-texas-chris-beard-top-25-college-basketball-today-99133534a0645c7318c6557d425d5dcf\">said<\/a> through her attorney, Randy Leavitt, that she was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by what has happened and that Beard was acting in self-defense, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris and I are deeply saddened that we have brought negative attention upon our family, friends, and the University of Texas, among others,\u201d Trew said in the statement. \u201cAs Chris\u2019 fianc\u00e9e and biggest supporter, I apologize for the role I played in this unfortunate event. I realize that my frustration, when breaking his glasses, initiated a physical struggle between Chris and myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris did not strangle me, and I told that to law enforcement that evening,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cChris has stated that he was acting in self-defense, and I do not refute that. I do not believe Chris was trying to intentionally harm me in any way. It was never my intent to have him arrested or prosecuted. We appreciate everyone\u2019s support and prayers during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-details-emerge-about-texas-coachs-alleged-violent-attack-on-fiancee-choked-me-threw-me-off-the-bed-bit-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrest affidavit<\/a> from earlier this month said that Beard and his fianc\u00e9e were having relationship issues and during a heated conversation, he \u201csnapped\u201d and \u201cbecame super violent,\u201d according to Trew.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began after Beard refused to communicate with Trew because he was mad at her, and when he came home, he went to the guest room in the house, the fianc\u00e9e said. She went into the guest room to check on him. He was reportedly lying on the bed, twirling a pair of reading glasses in his hands when she grabbed them and broke them. Things quickly escalated from there.<\/p>\n<p>Beard allegedly went to the main bedroom where he slapped the glasses Trew was wearing off her face. When the two were supposedly lying in bed together, she attempted to retrieve her glasses, and she claims that was when she was thrown off the bed. She attempted to gather her things, but reportedly couldn\u2019t see because she didn\u2019t have her glasses. She claims that he stood behind her and put his arm around her neck.<\/p>\n<p>The woman said that she did not feel safe after \u201che choked me, threw me off the bed, bit me, bruises all over my leg, throwing me around, and going nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked by law enforcement if his choking her \u201cimpeded her breathing,\u201d she replied, \u201cyes, I could not breathe, he did it for probably like 5 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Beard was interviewed by police, he said that he had audio recordings that indicated that he was not the primary aggressor. When police asked if he was willing to share the recordings, he said no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fianc\u00e9e of\u00a0University of Texas head men\u2019s basketball coach Chris Beard said Friday that he did not strangle her and she did not want him arrested, a stark turn around from the story that emerged early this month. Beard, 49, was arrested on December 12 after the Austin Police Department reportedly responded to a \u201cdisturbance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1786022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,11683,7142,5224,4024,6202,4352,8396,8400,11684,4178,11682,3694,6195],"class_list":["post-1786019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-acted","tag-basketball","tag-changes","tag-coach","tag-daily","tag-didnt","tag-fiancee","tag-me","tag-self-defense","tag-story","tag-strangle","tag-texas","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}