Texas A&M investigating receiver Demond Demas over another alleged assault

Demond Demas, the Texas A&M receiver arrested last week on a charge of assault, is the subject of an open investigation from an incident with another girlfriend. Brianna Turk, a student at Prairie View and a girlfriend of Demas' since they attended Tomball High School, said Demas slapped her and choked her several times during a six-month period starting in the summer of 2020. The Brazos County district attorney’s office declined to pursue charges at that time, citing a lack of overall evidence and a “she said/he said” circumstance, a law enforcement official said.

The case remains open with the university police department and a school investigation is ongoing under Title IX, a federal law that tries to curtail campus violence and sex-based discrimination at any school that receives money from the federal government. Houston attorney Tony Buzbee is representing Demas, and said he would not be able to comment on Turk’s claims because he was not aware of the details. Demas, one of the nation’s top high school recruits in the class of 2020, was arrested last week on a charge of assault from an incident the weekend of Feb. 26-27. Turk, her voice shaking, spoke publicly for the first time about what happened to her in 2020. “He started to choke me,” Turk said. “At that point I had to take my hands off my face, because I was trying to grab his hands to make him let me go. I told him, ‘I can’t breathe!’ He let go for a split second and I thought that was the end of it. But then he started choking me again, and I was screaming for him to get off me.