{"id":969025,"date":"2026-07-30T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/969025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:38:26","slug":"ex-lsu-star-demetrius-byrd-arrested-for-aggravated-assault-with-a-deadly-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/969025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-LSU star Demetrius Byrd arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Byrd, 40, was a member of the Tigers’ 2007 national championship team and spent one year in the NFL with the Chargers<\/p>\n

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Former LSU<\/a> standout Demetrius Byrd was arrested and charged this week with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following an incident on a Miami Beach bus<\/a> that involved a knife and verbal threat, according to an arrest report.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the arrest report, the dispute escalated when Byrd allegedly removed a silver multi-tool from his pocket, opened a blade, and asked the victim, “Who wants to die?” while walking toward him. The victim told authorities he tried unsuccessfully to de-escalate the situation by talking to Byrd.<\/p>\n

Byrd was granted a $5,000 bond during his hearing, but is required to appear before a judge due to an outstanding warrant in a separate domestic violence case.<\/p>\n

Byrd Byrd, 40, previously attended Miami Central Senior High School, where he led Miami-Dade County in receiving yards. He was an impact player on LSU’s 2007 BCS national championship team, catching a game-winning 22-yard touchdown catch from Matt Flynn with one second left on the clock to beat Auburn<\/a>. He finished his LSU career with 72 catches for 1,134 yards and 11 scores.<\/p>\n

Shortly before the 2009 NFL Draft<\/a>, Byrd suffered an injury in a serious car accident. He was still drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the seventh round, but spent his only pro season on the non-football injury list before his 2010 release.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Byrd, 40, was a member of the Tigers’ 2007 national championship team and spent one year in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":969026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[12424,1428,1318,9659,16660,1317,1315,142106,1316,1232,50686,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-969025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-arrest","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-lsu-football","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaaf","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl","tag-san-diego-chargers","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117008972700896683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}