Details emerge after Kevin Porter Jr.’s alleged attack on girlfriend

Basketball
Published 24.09.2023
Details emerge after Kevin Porter Jr.’s alleged attack on girlfriend

Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr.’s girlfriend was left with a damaged bone in her neck after the NBA participant allegedly relentlessly beat and choked her at their Big Apple lodge, prosecutors stated Wednesday — as he was launched on $75,000 bail.

Porter, 23, is accused of repeatedly punching his 26-year-old girlfriend, Kysre Gondrezick, within the face and choking her till she couldn’t breathe inside their room on the four-star Millennium Hilton New York Hotel in Midtown early Monday, in keeping with a felony grievance.

The savage beatdown allegedly solely stopped when Gondrezick — a former WNBA participant — fled the room and was discovered bloodied and bruised by lodge workers within the corridor, prosecutors stated throughout Porter’s arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.

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The professional baller, whose full title is Bryan Kevin Porter Jr., was arrested at about 6.30 a.m. Monday and charged with assault and strangulation after cops obtained a 911 name concerning the alleged assault.

His girlfriend informed officers that Porter had struck her with a closed fist a number of instances — leaving her with an inches-long gash above her proper eye, prosecutors stated.

The hoopster then allegedly “forcefully” squeezed Gondrezick’s neck together with his arms, “causing her to experience difficulty breathing, redness and bruising to her neck, and substantial pain,” the grievance expenses.

After being taken to NYU Langone Medical Center, docs confirmed that Gondrezick — who beforehand performed for the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky — had suffered a fractured vertebra in her neck, the submitting stated.

Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office had requested Porter’s bail be set at $100,000 throughout his arraignment, citing a historical past of alleged abuse towards his girlfriend — together with an incident when he rammed his automotive into hers.

Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested at about 6.30 a.m. Monday and charged with assault and strangulation. Carmen Mandato/Getty Images/AFP
Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested at about 6.30 a.m. Monday and charged with assault and strangulation. Carmen Mandato/Getty Images/AFPSource: AFP

Assistant District Attorney Mirah Curzer had additionally informed the courtroom that Porter, who lives in Houston, Texas, is understood to have entry to a number of firearms, and was arrested out of state in 2020 on gun expenses, which had been later dropped.

Judge Michael Ryan, nonetheless, as an alternative set the NBA star’s bail at $75,000 and granted a full non permanent restraining order towards him.

Porter — who signed a $63.4 million contract with the Rockets in 2022 — was silent as he left the courthouse and ushered right into a ready automotive following his arraignment.

He is due again in courtroom on Oct. 16.

His defence lawyer, Stephanie Kelemen of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, didn’t return a request for remark.

Police sources have stated the alleged assault on Gondrezick came about after the couple had gone out Sunday night time and later returned to the lodge.

Gondrezick was asleep when her professional baller beau allegedly began beating her, the sources added.

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“We are aware of the reports regarding Kevin Porter Jr.,” an NBA spokesperson informed The Post within the wake of his arrest.

“The league office is in contact with the Houston Rockets and in the process of gathering more information.”

Meanwhile, Gondrezick’s sister reportedly took to her Instagram Stories to warn Porter to “count [his] days” after he was slapped with the fees, in keeping with Clutch Points.

“@kevinporterjr if you think you gone touch my sister & not get touched,” Kalabrya Haskins wrote in a since-expired submit. “Count ya f—ing days. Better hope and pray you’ll be able to ever walk again let alone dribble.

“You may have gotten away with this s–t in the past cause yo mama ain’t beat ya a–, but we spank lil punk a– painting nail sissy b—-es like you every day. Don’t show up to that crib. We gone do it to you. Lil b—h.”

Kevin Porter Jr and Kysre Gondrezick. (Photo by Jared Siskin/Getty Images for Vogue)Source: Getty Images

Porter has a historical past of outbursts and was shipped from Cleveland to Houston in January 2021 after getting right into a screaming match and tossing meals when his locker was moved to a wall with youthful gamers, The Athletic reported on the time.

He was additionally charged with improperly dealing with a firearm in a automobile in Cleveland in November 2020 — although the case was dropped a month later.

In January 2022, he needed to be separated from then-Houston assistant coach John Lucas throughout a halftime change that noticed Porter lose his mood and throw an object, The Athletic reported.

This article first appeared on The New York Postand was reproduced with permission.