The running back said he hopes to stay at USC, but feels “like I’m obligated to leave, like they don’t want me here.” In his appeal, which is still ongoing, Christon asked for a second chance from USC. Jaxson Dart makes mistakes - and offers a glimmer of hope - in first USC startįreshman Jaxson Dart struggled to make a big impact in his first collegiate start, throwing two interceptions in USC’s 62-33 loss to UCLA.Ĭhriston hasn’t been with the football program since. 7 confirmed that “interim protective measures” had been imposed against Christon. But two days later, Christon was pulled out of a meeting by then-football coach Clay Helton, who told him the university had ruled he was no longer allowed to participate in any team activities or competitions. The other student declined to comment when reached by The Times.Ĭhriston received a call from the DPS that afternoon and later met with officers. “Cops are on the way and I have video,” he wrote, according to a screenshot of the Instagram message viewed by The Times. At 3:15, the other student messaged Christon on Instagram. The other student later told officers that he “lost consciousness” and “started to and see stars.”ĭPS officers were sent to the scene around 3 p.m. According to USC’s decision letter, surveillance footage from a nearby security camera showed the headlock lasted 17 seconds as the two of them tumbled to the ground.
The other student said it lasted between 30 seconds and a minute. Christon admitted he escalated the altercation to physical contact, but he said it lasted only a few seconds. The student said Christon provoked the altercation by breaking a $500 gold necklace he was wearing, knocking a hat off his head and destroying his sunglasses.Ĭhriston, who says he never entered the parking garage, didn’t dispute breaking the other student’s sunglasses or necklace during their tussle, but said the student attempted to provoke him by threatening to ruin his career, then sticking a phone in his face multiple times to record video.īoth said that soon after they crossed 30th Street, Christon came up behind the student and put him in a headlock. 5, then followed him as he walked northbound on Figueroa Street. The other student, according to a crime report from USC’s Department of Public Safety obtained by The Times, told officers on the scene that Christon confronted him in his apartment’s secured parking garage around 1:20 p.m. Though Christon said their meeting was coincidental, the investigator concluded that it was “more likely” that Christon went to the student’s residence “with the intent to confront him.”Īccounts of what happened in the minutes after they met differ. The next day, Christon said he encountered the other student outside his apartment building on Figueroa Street. When he asked for a face-to-face meeting, Christon said the other student sent him a fake address. The conversation and tensions escalated from there. Christon said he sent a direct message to the other student, asking him not to speak to his girlfriend. 5 dispute, Christon explained, started after a male USC student who attended high school with Christon’s girlfriend responded to a post of hers on social media. I shouldn’t have done this in the first place.” I’m just sitting here watching my teammates on my iPad.
“I can’t get this time back,” Christon said.
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But a six-week investigation conducted by Andrew Barton, a judicial officer within USC’s office of Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards, found Christon responsible for seven violations of the student code of conduct and suspended him from USC’s campus and all other university activities, including football, through Dec. The two students have since reconciled via text message, Christon says. When Kenan Christon vanished from USC’s football team in early September, just days after the Trojans’ season-opening win, no explanation was offered as to why the junior running back was suddenly “removed from team activities.”īut nearly three months later, with USC’s season in a tailspin and Christon facing sanctions from the university, new details have emerged about an altercation that led the university to suspend the promising Trojan running back.Īccompanied by his lawyer and local civil rights activist Najee Ali, Christon told The Times he feels he’s been treated unfairly by the university and its student judicial process over a physical altercation with another male student that resulted in no arrests or charges filed.
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