New details released are disturbing....
"A 911 caller told dispatchers about 9:50 a.m. that a man had hit a woman and dragged her by her hair into a house. The caller said the two had been arguing in the front yard and then started walking down the street. At one point, the man dragged her by the hair about 50 feet to the house. The caller stated similar incidents involving the two had happened before.
The first TPD officer on scene heard a woman screaming inside the one-story home and a man yelling at her. The officer pushed the front door open and found Pender straddling the woman with his hands around her neck.
The officer then pointed their gun at Pender and commanded he get off the woman and lie on the ground. Pender, court documents said, told the officer the two were "just wrestling," but he got off the woman and was handcuffed.
The woman was disheveled and injured, the officer said, with scratches to her left temple and chest, a bruised right eye and several scratches and marks on her neck. Pender's shirt was torn and he had a cut on his lip, court documents said.
The woman told police she and Pender were arguing before officers arrived and that he grabbed her by the throat. She said Pender did not mean to injure her but he accidentally scratched her temple. The bruise on her eye, she said, was caused by her child. She provided a sworn statement but refused to have her injuries photographed by officers.
Pender initially refused to get in the police car "until a supervisor and (FSU head coach)
Jimbo Fisher responded to the scene," court documents said. Pender eventually got into the car and was taken to the Leon County Jail.
In the past, Florida State has often opted to suspend players charged with acts of domestic violence pending the outcome of legal action. But in the case of Pender, he was summarily dismissed."
