{"id":414157,"date":"2026-08-22T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:46:27","slug":"tcu-official-contacted-campus-police-after-locker-room-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414157\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU official contacted campus police after locker room fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TCU football staffer contacted TCU campus police about the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article316927380.html\">altercation in the locker room<\/a> that led to the dismissal of Jacob Fields, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>The Star-Telegram obtained a mostly redacted copy of the police report involving the altercation with Fields and a teammate on Aug. 13. Fields\u2019 name was redacted in the report, but the Star-Telegram confirmed on Tuesday that it was Fields who allegedly struck a teammate.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, on Aug. 14, Officer Kevin Fitchett was dispatched to the John Justin Athletic Center to meet with the reporting party.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, \u201cThe RP wanted to relay information regarding an altercation that occurred in the men\u2019s locker room (on) yesterday\u2019s date, Aug. 13, 2026, at approximately 13:30hrs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before being heavily redacted, the report states that the reporting party\u2019s title is general manager for TCU football. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/staff\/ryan-dorchester\/471\">Ryan Dorchester is listed as TCU\u2019s general manager<\/a> on the athletics website. Dorchester\u2019s statement to the police was redacted in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The report continues, \u201cOfficer advised RP to have V1 (the victim) make contact with TCU PD in order for a more comprehensive investigation and possible filing of any charges if V1 chose to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While most of the information about the victim was redacted, the report confirmed that a Black male was the victim.<\/p>\n<p>TCU announced the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/college\/big-12\/texas-christian-university\/article316920646.html\">dismissal of Fields<\/a> on Aug. 18, five days after the altercation. Fields was in line to be a starter at free safety and replace former All-Big 12 safety and second round NFL draft pick Bud Clark in the secondary.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Dykes and TCU declined to comment further on the matter after Fields\u2019 dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Frogs open the season against North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland, on Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published August 20, 2026 at 1:39 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TCU football staffer contacted TCU campus police about the altercation in the locker room that led to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-414157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}