{"id":645850,"date":"2026-05-16T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:13:09","slug":"arrest-made-in-connection-with-shooting-that-wounded-missouri-rb-ahmad-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645850\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in connection with shooting that wounded Missouri RB Ahmad Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was arrested Thursday night in Kentucky on charges stemming from a shooting that injured Missouri running back Ahmad Hardy<\/a> early Sunday morning at a concert in Laurel, Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Macon Davis of the Laurel Police Department told the Laurel Leader-Call that 20-year-old Rashodrick Harris had been arrested in Paducah, Kentucky, on two counts of aggravated assault. Hardy was shot while he was in a car leaving the venue, and at least one more person was injured in the shooting. The police department is working to have Harris extradited to Mississippi.<\/p>\n

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From the Leader-Call:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to be extradited one way or the other,\u201d Davis told the paper. \u201cIf he fights it all the way, we\u2019d have to end up with a governor\u2019s warrant. But it absolutely will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis said they developed Harris as a suspect after reviewing video of the shooting that showed Harris on the scene. Police were able to capture his tag number from the video, and one of the victims ID\u2019d Harris after being shown a still shot of him.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 arrest comes after three men had been arrested in connection with the shooting. However, those men have been released and are not expected to face any charges.<\/p>\n

Hardy underwent surgery on Sunday after the shooting and returned to Columbia, Missouri, on Wednesday. Missouri said in a statement after the shooting that Hardy\u2019s return to football was \u201cunknown.\u201d At an event this week, Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz said \u201cthere was an opportunity [Hardy] could be back\u201d in 2026, but that the team \u201cwon\u2019t know those answers for a few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardy was one of the top running backs in the SEC in 2025 and the second-leading rusher in the country. After spending his freshman season at Louisiana-Monroe, Hardy had 1,649 yards and 16 TDs in his first season with the Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Thursday night in Kentucky on charges stemming from a shooting that injured Missouri running…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[114020,5613,399,113157,278694,278695,9599,6747,398,396,397,278693,99],"class_list":["post-645850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-ahmad-hardy","tag-columbia","tag-football","tag-laurel","tag-laurel-police-department","tag-macon-davis","tag-mississippi","tag-missouri","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-rashodrick-harris","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}