{"id":443808,"date":"2026-09-22T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443808\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:50:09","slug":"girlfriend-asks-court-to-drop-assault-charge-against-uh-football-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443808\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffGirlfriend asks court to drop assault charge against UH football player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; University of Houston Cougars football player Carmello Brooks appeared in court on Monday as he faces two separate criminal charges, including one accusing him of assaulting a pregnant person. But the woman at the center of the more serious allegation told the judge she wants the case dismissed, insisting police misunderstood what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During Brooks&#8217; initial court appearance, the alleged victim, Nariah Harley, said the incident began with an argument inside Brooks&#8217; apartment last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SEE PREVIOUS REPORT: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/university-houston-student-accused-assaulting-pregnant-woman\/19846754\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Houston football player accused of assaulting pregnant woman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;So we had got into argument at his apartment. He had told me to get out multiple times, and I would not get out. He then just picked me up and gently put me out the apartment,&#8221; Harley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court records show UH police responded to the apartment. Harley said it was Brooks who called officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;He actually called the police. He called 911 because I would not get out his apartment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Brooks&#8217; attorney, Brent Wasserstein, told the court the encounter was recorded on police body camera video and said he believes the footage will support Brooks&#8217; account once prosecutors review it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;So the prosecution is going to review the 911 call that my client made, and they are going to investigate the body cameras that the police officers were wearing when they went out to the scene,&#8221; Wasserstein said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Brooks is also facing a separate charge stemming from an August incident in northwest Harris County, where he is accused of damaging a door handle after allegedly getting into another dispute with a different woman and her sister. In that case, prosecutors charged Brooks with criminal mischief. Family members say Brooks and the women involved grew up together in Killeen and knew each other in high school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Harley is also from Killeen, and currently attends Texas Southern University. She told the court that Brooks is the father of her baby, and she does not consider herself a victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I would like for all the charges to be dismissed, dropped by the DA, and us to need to be able to move on with my life and him to be able to move on with my life, his life,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Wasserstein said Brooks remains suspended from the football team while both cases move forward, but hopes he will be allowed to attend classes as the charges remain pending.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; University of Houston Cougars football player Carmello Brooks appeared in court on Monday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[153262,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-443808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-153262","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443808","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=443808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}