TPD: Case closed in investigation into FSU's Deondre Francois

The investigation into an alleged battery of a pregnant woman by Florida State quarterback hopeful Deondre Francois ended when neither was arrested.

Francois called Tallahassee Police at about 6 p.m. Tuesday after a fight with his girlfriend at the South Lipona Road home they’ve shared for the past four months.

Both were interviewed and told dramatically different versions of what happened, according to a TPD report of the incident. Due to the conflicting statements and lack of independent witnesses, officers did not make an arrest.

Francois told police he and a friend were hanging out when his girlfriend showed up and started to argue with him. She began to break things inside the house he said, and tried to rip a TV off the wall.

She told police Francois became upset over a friend of his trying to talk to her. She said he broke down the bedroom door, according to the report, picked her up and threw her on the ground, cutting her forearm, and tried to kick her out of the house.

Francois' girlfriend said she did not wish to press charges and that he should have known she was pregnant because she'd told him in the past. She said she was about 9 weeks pregnant.

She threatened to call the police multiple times during the fight, according to the incident report.

"She advised me she did not want Francois to get in 'trouble trouble', but she did want me to speak with him and scare him a little,'" officers wrote in the 4-page report. She also said he'd "smoked weed earlier."

Francois said he grabbed his girlfriend in a hug in an attempt to keep her from breaking items in the apartment and the cut on her arm came from a vase she'd smashed during the fight. He said she'd told him she was pregnant but had not provided paperwork to prove it.

Francois' friend Zaquandre White, an FSU running back, confirmed his account. He said Francois only put his hands on the woman "when he tried to prevent her from breaking things in the home and when he had to defend himself."

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Francois was absent for most of FSU's season following an injury and missed FSU's senior day game against Delaware State to visit family in Orlando.

He started all 13 games as a redshirt freshman during the 2016 season and was named the ACC Rookie of the Year.

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