A day after Deion Sanders was reportedly being investigated for assaulting an employee at Prime Prep Academy, a school he helped co-found, the NFL Network analyst and Hall of Fame cornerback has been fired from the Dallas-area charter school, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
"Effective immediately, Deion Sanders is no longer an employee or representative for Prime Prep Academy," the school said in a statement.
According to the police report, Kevin Jefferson, a faculty member at the school, said that Sanders became angry during a faculty meeting when the subject of academic struggles among student athletes came up. That led to a confrontation, and Jefferson said that Sanders became "a little upset and a little emotional" when talking about the subject.
That emotion gave way to hostility, according to Jefferson, who told the Morning News on Thursday that "[Sanders] walked back to the back of the classroom to where I was sitting in a desk ... As he got closer to me, I stood up because he was kind of standing over me and he just kind of kept talking to me and at me and then he just grabbed me by my throat and kind of threw me to the ground. Some people had to get him off of me."
Sanders originally called the allegations nonsense.
The Person claiming assault is a fake administrator whom does absolutely nothing to help the school,kids or teachers reach our goals. Truth
-- DeionSanders (@DeionSanders) October 10, 2013
Sanders also spoke with WFAA-TV about the incident on Thursday, the day before he was fired.
SOURCE: Ryan Wilson
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