Braylon Edwards Gets Stabby With Knives And Forks At Birmingham Bar

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Jalen Rose was a gentleman.

 

Braylon Edwards was not.

 

New information about the Aug. 1 bar fight at South Bar in downtown Birmingham indicates Edwards was more involved in the incident than originally reported. The star NFL receiver was at the bar with his two cousins in the early morning hours when an argument turned into a brawl that resulted in one bouncer being stabbed in the neck with a fork and a second bouncer being stabbed in the hand with a pocket knife.

 

Neither bouncer was seriously injured. The two cousins are being charged with felonious assault in connection with the stabbings. As of Wednesday morning, no charges were filed against Edwards, a former University of Michigan player who played with the New York Jets last season. Birmingham police said they had no knowledge of Edwards being involved in the fight, mainly because they were too busy at the time trying to break up the melee.

 

“The officers were taking the suspects into custody and by the time they returned to the bar to get statements, everyone was gone,” Police Cmdr. Terry Kiernan said Wednesday. “As time went on, we started hearing other people were involved in this.”

 

Kiernan also said police might arrest a third person who was connected to the original fight that resulted in the stabbings.

 

A statement released by the bar Tuesday makes it clear that Edwards was directly involved in the fight.

 

According to the prepared statement, “Braylon Edwards was present and involved, but it’s an ongoing police investigation so at this time we don’t have any further information."

 

Tre Lenard Wright, 19, of Detroit, is being charged with one count of felonious assault and a second count of resisting arrest. His older brother, Edmund Jerrell

 

Wright, 22, of Lathrup Village, is being charged with one count of felonious assault. Both men were arraigned Monday in 48th District Court, entering not guilty pleas.

 

Privately, employees at South Bar said Edwards was spurring on his cousins rather than trying to get them to stop fighting. They also said former NBA star Jalen Rose was at the bar and tried to break up the ruckus. Police say several Detroit Tigers players were also at the bar with a different group of people and not involved in the fight.

 

“Jalen was a true gentleman,” one employee said. “He saw what was going on and he walked right up and tried to stop it.”

 

Both athletes are dealing with their own share of troubles. Edwards, 28, is already on probation for a drunken driving conviction out of New York City. Rose, meanwhile, reported Tuesday to Oakland County Jail to serve 20 days for a drunken driving arrest out of West Bloomfield.

 

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