Chiefs vast receiver Xavier Worthy launched after Texas district legal professional declines to pursue fees

AUSTIN, Texas — Xavier Worthy was launched Saturday after a district legal professional in Texas declined to pursue fees towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs vast receiver following an arrest through which he had been accused of felony home violence.

Williamson County District Lawyer Shawn Dick advised the Austin American-Statesman his workplace had spoken with witnesses and was not accepting the case at the moment. He additionally mentioned Worthy and his legal professionals had been totally cooperating with the investigation.

Data confirmed that Worthy had been arrested Friday by deputies and held within the county jail on a cost of assault on a household or family member through which their breath was impeded, or choking in widespread phrases. The net court docket itemizing for the case was up to date to “dismissed/declined” later Saturday.

Williamson County consists of components of Austin, the place Worthy performed faculty soccer on the College of Texas.

In a press release, Worthy’s attorneys, Chip Lewis and Sam Bassett, mentioned their consumer was harmless of the cost towards him. They mentioned the allegation was made by a feminine who had been dwelling in Worthy’s dwelling, and that she had been requested to depart the house a number of instances over the past two weeks “upon discovery of her infidelity.”

“She has refused to vacate the residence and made numerous extortive efforts previous to resorting to this baseless allegation towards Mr. Worthy,” the legal professionals’ assertion mentioned. “The complainant additional destroyed a room within the residence, scratched Mr. Worthy’s face and ripped out components of his hair, which there’s photographic proof of. Worthy advised legislation enforcement on the time of the incident he didn’t wish to press fees towards the complainant.”

The Chiefs advised The Related Press on Saturday that they had been conscious of the state of affairs and nonetheless gathering data.

Below Texas legislation, impeding respiration means “deliberately, knowingly or recklessly impeding the traditional respiration or circulation of the blood of the particular person by making use of stress to the particular person’s throat or neck or by blocking the particular person’s nostril or mouth.”

Worthy was chosen by the Chiefs with the twenty eighth general choose in final 12 months’s draft after setting the report for the quickest 40-yard sprint on the NFL mix. He acquired off to a fast begin by scoring a pair of touchdowns in his NFL debut, and after a midseason lull, he grew to become the Chiefs’ go-to vast receiver as they chased an unprecedented third consecutive Tremendous Bowl title.

Worthy completed with 59 catches for 638 yards and 6 TDs whereas operating 20 instances for 104 yards and three extra scores.

He was one of many few brilliant spots for the Chiefs in a 40-22 loss to Philadelphia within the Tremendous Bowl, too. Worthy caught all eight of his targets for 157 yards and a pair of touchdowns on the Superdome in New Orleans.

The Chiefs got here to depend on Worthy partly due to a season-ending damage to vast receiver Rashee Rice, who was coming off a superb rookie season of his personal. Rice caught 24 passes for 288 yards and two TDs in 4 video games earlier than getting harm.

Rice and one other driver, Theodore Knox, had been concerned in a high-speed automotive crash in March 2024 that triggered a sequence response on a freeway in Dallas, near the place he had performed faculty soccer at SMU. Rice is presently going through not less than two civil lawsuits together with quite a few prison fees for his function within the wreck.

Rice turned himself in following the crash, and his legal professional, Texas Sen. Royce West, mentioned that the vast receiver admitted that he was driving the Lamborghini concerned. Rice additionally posted on social media that he took duty for his function within the crash.