CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A University of Illinois football player has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery after a bar fight that authorities say sent another man to the hospital.
Nineteen-year-old Mike Garrity of Batavia has pleaded not guilty after the fight at 1:55 a.m. Friday at Kam's, near campus.
Police say women at the bar told Garrity the unidentified man harassed them.
Champaign County prosecutor Julia Rietz says Garrity punched him, fracturing the man's skull. Rietz says the man is a university student and remained hospitalized Monday.
Garrity's attorney, Dan Pope, says he hasn't yet talked to his client.
Garrity is a 6-6, 310-pound sophomore lineman who has never played. A team spokeswoman says he's now suspended.
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Published: May 19, 2009
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