Florida's Deiondre Porter arrested on charges of shooting at girlfriend, suspended indefinitelyWhile it's not quite as jarring as the news of Will Grier's year-long suspension, Florida announcing that Deiondre Porter is suspended indefinitely in a brisk tweet sure isn't the best news that could have broken this Wednesday — and given the charges facing Porter, it's possible Porter's days as a Gator are over.Porter's name appears in Alachua County Jail records, indicating that he was booked at 11:19 a.m. on Wednesday.What Porter didto get sent to the hoosegow (and suspended) only trickled out after that tweet — his name doesn't show up in any Gainesville Police Department records that have been put online, and the only University Police Department crime log entry from the last two days that hasn't seen a complaint withdrawn was a DUI that occurred Tuesday at 1:36 a.m. — which would seem likely to have leaked in the nearly 36 hours since.Adam Silverstein of Only Gators and Gainesville Sun reporter Cindy Swirko were first to the ball on this one:Indeed, Alachua County court records show that Porter has been charged with aggravated battery, firing a "deadly missile" into a vehicle or dwelling, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, and criminal mischief for property damage. The first two charges are second-degree felonies, the aggravated assault charges are third-degree felonies, and the criminal mischief charge is a second-degree misdemeanor.The Gainesville Police Department released the arrest report from Porter's incidentearly Wednesday afternoon. I'm choosing not to embed it here because it contains contact information for Porter, but you can read it at the link.This is the narrative portion of the report, which lists the date for the incident as 7:15 a.m. on September 29, 2015.On the above date at approximately 0215 hours, the defendant confronted the victim about her being involved with one of his teammates. The defendant began yelling at the victim in her apartment demanding that she tell him the truth about being with his teammate. The victim then retreated to her bedroom to avoid the confrontation. The defendant followed her into her bedroom, produced a handgun, and placed it to her head. The defendant continued to demand that the victim tell him the truth. The victim made numerous attempts to contact the teammate to prove she had not been intimate with him by text message as well as calling but got no answer to either. The defendant told the victim that they would try again in the morning and eventually went to sleep in the victim's bedroom. The victim slept in the living room. At approximately 0715 hours, later that same day, the defendant began yelling at the victim again about her being involved with his teammates. The victim continued to deny having any type of intimate relationship with the teammate. According to the victim, the defendant became enraged and started pacing back and forth in the living room. During this time the victim was standing next to her front door. The victim stated that all of a sudden she saw the defendant raise his arm and fire the handgun in her direction. The victim said the bullet struck the wall where she was leaning. Shortly after, the defendant left the victim's residence.The victim and defendant have been involved in a dating relationship since 2013 and the victim is ten weeks pregnant. The defendant was aware that the victim was pregnant prior to this incident.During a search of the victim's apartment a bullet hole was found in the wall near the front door. A .45 caliber shell casing was also found under a chair in the living room in the area where the victim said the defendant had been standing when he fired the gun in her direction.On 9-30-15 (the following day), the defendant was contacted in a vehicle with another individual by GPD patrol officers. The defendant was the passenger. The driver, a friend of the defendant, was subsequently found to be in possession of a .45 caliber handgun.The field for the first charge against Porter is blacked out, with the note "Charge amended by (State's Attorney's Office) to Agg Assault, Weapons Offense, Criminal Mischief." The field for the second charge against Porter reads "Aggravated Assault (Domestic)."We'll probably learn more about what Florida knew and when as this story develops. Jim McElwain, in his weekly appearance on an SEC teleconference, said that Porter was "no longer with the football team."I can't imagine Porter remaining with — or returning to, depending on your perspective — Florida if this isn't just some bizarre misunderstanding; four felony charges, all related to doing something dumb with a gun, should be more than enough to get Porter booted.Porter had seen very limited action on defense this fall, as he's served largely as a backup to Vernon Hargreaves III, Jalen Tabor, and Quincy Wilson at cornerback. But he'd been a contributor on special teams, to the degree that he ended up in a gaudy sombreroMcElwain is giving out to his best special teamers.smh Where is the National media coverage of this?
