I heard that the football players involved in the shooting are going to be represented by a high priced lawyer...what I was wondering is who the hell is paying for it? Anyone got an inside scoop on this?

I dunno. But I used to play football (we were decent friends) with a dude who plays at FIU. Haven't seen him this summer yet, although I'll probably see him at the gym or a party sometime soon. I heard he just got back home this week.

The shooting?

 

Am I forgetting something?

Link?

Basically what happened is that a group of 5 people tried to rob a couple of my friends outside of the FIU apartments on the 3rd and a shot was fired. 3 of them got caught, all from the FIU football team.

Here's the article from the Herald:

 

3 from FIU jailed after shooting

 

Three FIU football players are in jail, one facing a charge of attempted murder, after a gun was fired into a car at the university's main campus, police said.

 

BY KRISTEN BOLT AND PETE PELEGRIN

 

kbolt@herald.com

 

 

Three Florida International University football players who police said tried to rob two students and fired a gun into their car were in jail Monday, being held without bond.

 

Fifty-nine days before the team's first game of the season, FIU has suspended the three players, who were arrested Saturday night.

 

Everett Baker, a 20-year-old junior defensive back on the FIU Golden Panthers, was charged with attempted murder, two counts each of armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of possession of a firearm in a school zone.

 

Diamos DeMerritt, 21, and Randy Arnold, 20, also juniors, were charged with two counts each of armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm in a school zone.

 

DeMerritt, a former Norland High School running back and a University of Minnesota transfer, was also charged with possession of a concealed firearm and possession of marijuana. Arnold is a reserve defensive back and special-teams player.

 

''Obviously, these are serious allegations, and after the due process of the law is served, we'll take it from there,'' said Golden Panthers coach Don Strock. ``In the meantime, all three have been suspended indefinitely.''

 

An FIU spokeswoman said that two students, who are not football players, were sitting in a car in front of the on-campus housing apartment complex at the university's main campus in Southwest Miami-Dade County when a group of five men walked up to the car. Baker began firing his weapon into the car, spokeswoman Maydel Santana-Bravo said.

 

Those in the car drove away without injury, and the two other men from the group of assailants got away, police said. FIU would not release the names of the students who were in the car.

 

Santana-Bravo said the three players have hired defense attorney David Tucker. She did not know how the three ended up with the same lawyer but said FIU did not hire him. Tucker was not available for comment Monday night.

 

DeMerritt and Arnold were suspended from the team for a month last year for violating university regulations.

 

FIU campus police said they would release the arrest report today.

 

DeMerritt was the team's second leading rusher as a junior last season, with 309 yards and two touchdowns. Baker, a junior defensive back, was fourth in tackles for FIU last season with 67.

 

''We at the university take these matters very seriously. We're now in the process of the investigation trying to find out all the facts so that we can get to that point where we can handle the matter in accordance with university policy,'' said Rick Mello, the FIU athletic director, who said that he had not seen the police report.

 

Herald staff writer Elaine De Valle contributed to this report

ok good...none of em I know

wow...

 

you dont expect college students to be such huge scumbags.... but eh, they are football players, after all.

:lol

 

This is the college that along with five other Florida schools are trying to jump to Division I-A football? They're well on their way of joining Miami, Florida and Florida State.

Basically what happened is that a group of 5 people tried to rob a couple of my friends outside of the FIU apartments on the 3rd and a shot was fired. 3 of them got caught, all from the FIU football team.

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Crap, dude. How are your friends holding up?

No one is really caring too much that they got shot at. Even though they searched my friends car and found nothing they have this idea in their head that the shooting was over a drug deal...so they might be in trouble with FIU. The passenger got fired from his job and is gonna have to move out of his apartment because of this...I joked to him that if he gets in trouble with FIU also he should go on Help Me Howard.