Sufferer Who Says He Was Stomped and Disfigured By New Orleans Saints Participant Is Suing for $10M

An NFL participant is being sued for an alleged assault that befell throughout Professional Bowl weekend earlier this yr.

Based on ESPN, Darnell Greene Jr. is suing New Orleans Saints participant Alvin Kamara for $10 million. The lawsuit was filed in a Louisiana court docket Friday. Inexperienced claims he wasinvolved in an altercation with Kamara, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs cornerback Christopher Lammons, and two different males.

The lawsuit is requesting compensatory and punitive damages of $10 million. Inexperienced needs $5 million in precise damages for “pecuniary losses, ache and struggling, disfigurement, psychological anguish, and previous, current, and future medical bills” and $5 million in exemplary damages.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Orleans Parish, accuses Kamara and firm of beating Greene and stomping on him after he was unconscious on the ground exterior of a Las Vegas nightclub on the morning of Feb. 5. The authorized paperwork filed alleges that the New Orleans operating again pushed shoved Greene right into a wall, whereas repeatedly punching him within the face. He additionally acknowledged that Kamara bragged in regards to the assault to somebody he was with as they left the membership.

Greene mentioned he suffered extreme accidents throughout his physique together with his neck, again, head, shoulder, knees, and face. Medical testing “confirmed a disfiguring facial fracture to Greene’s proper orbital bone, blunt pressure trauma to his head, a number of disc protrusions, and structural tears in his shoulder.” Greene claims he’ll want a number of surgical procedures in consequence.

The sufferer additionally has accused NFL commissioner Roger Goodell of not taking any motion, regardless of seeing footage of the assault.

“Kamara presently faces prison prices for the prevalence described herein. Nonetheless, these proceedings have seemingly been placed on pause to permit Kamara to play a whole season for the Saints with out being suspended,” the lawsuit reads.

“Additional, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has failed to completely examine the incident at hand, and is ostensibly ready for the prison proceedings to play out earlier than issuing a suspension. It’s extremely suspected that Goodell has seen the violent safety footage of the assault–simply as Plaintiff has—however is selecting to not take corrective motion. Darnell Greene refuses to permit the Commissioner, the authorities, or Kamara himself to brush this matter below the rug.”

Based on NFL.com, Kamara was arrested and accused of beating somebody up the night time earlier than the Professional Bowl in a Las Vegas nightclub. Kamara was arrested and charged with battery leading to substantial bodily hurt, in line with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division.

The LVMPD mentioned in a written assertion on Feb. 5 at round 5:50 p.m., law enforcement officials had been known as to a neighborhood hospital the place the sufferer was reporting an assault. The sufferer mentioned it befell at a nightclub situated within the 3500 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard.

An investigation into the matter by LVMPD detectives decided he was battered by the Saints operating again Kamara, who was taken into custody with out incident following the Professional Bowl on Feb. 6. Kamara was hauled to the Clark County Detention Middle and booked for battery ensuing in substantial bodily hurt.