BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) Three Bloomsburg University football players are facing charges tonight in an alleged assault.

All three are being charged with aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy and disorderly conduct.

Eyewitness News Reporter Cody Butler explains the incident behind the arrests.

Mark Collins Jr., Donovan Morris, Seabron Veal, and Davone Cornish are all accused of beating Ryan Karpinski, according to court paperwork, on Fetterman Avenue in Bloomsburg back in July.



Three out of the four were current Bloomsburg Huskies football players.

The university has now taken action.







Tom McGuire is the Director of Sports Information at Bloomsburg University

“We we’re able to immediately identify these players as have been involved in this situation. We obviously take these matters very seriously.”



Eyewitness News spoke with Karpinski who did not want to appear on camera.



He tells Cody Butler , he went outside during a verbal altercation outside his apartment to tell everyone to leave. But minutes later the four football players knocked on his door – when he answered – he said he was hit in the head with a pipe, a bat to the ribs and kicked for several minutes.





“Obviously we like to think we have a good clean program but again things happen and unfortunately they happened in this case to some of our football players.”



Tom McGuire with the University says one of the players involved dropped out of school this month and the other two have been suspended until both appear for an internal hearing with the university.





“If there is any further punishment that needs to be dealt out, at that moment, once they determine any further punishment is needed they’ll take it at that point.”





Bloomsburg Police and the University were able to look at surveillance video of the assault to determine who was involved. That video has not yet been released to the public because the investigation is ongoing.

All four will be in district court next week for their preliminary hearings.





