Report claims witnesses at March party saw UK players beat up students

According to a new report by Eric Crawford of WDRB, three anonymous student witnesses, who were at the March party that resulted in six Kentucky Football players being charged with first-degree burglary on Thursday, have come forward.

All three spoke on the condition of anonymity over concern for their safety.

Vito Tisdale, one of the six players involved, was hit with a wanton endangerment charge for supposedly brandishing a gun. None of the six players charged have shared their side of the story at this time and all of them have pled not guilty.

NEW | Students who say they were at March party claim UK football players beat up students https://t.co/svQO4QBCEf pic.twitter.com/aJQh8oVlhx

— Eric Crawford (@ericcrawford) August 20, 2021

The student witnesses claim that the incident first sparked a week prior when Kentucky Football players supposedly showed up uninvited to a party and were asked to leave. The claim then states that the players threatened to beat up some of the students but ultimately stayed at the party without further incident.

The report then goes on to say that the players showed up one week later at another party where they were refused entry. The players then claimed they would be back, with one witness claiming he heard a player say he would bring back a gun.

Once the players left, 20 minutes had passed before they came back, when witnesses claim that the players “just came in and started throwing punches at guys, girls, it did not matter who. They were just throwing punches to throw punches.”

Another witness claims that at least three girls were hit.

“A lot of people in the house were trying to hide,” a witness said in the report. “There were a lot of girls there. A lot were trying to get hid into a room or trying to get out the back door and run. So a lot was going on. I don’t think they were coming in and targeting anyone specifically, but they did hit, from what I know for sure, three girls. And three or four of them jumped one of my friends.”

According to the claim, the whole endeavor lasted roughly five to 10 minutes before the police were called and the party eventually broke up.

You can read the entire report from WDRB here.