Markieff Morris avoids trial
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Kansas freshman forward Markieff Morris agreed to a diversion agreement that will require him to perform 20 hours of community service for shooting a Wisconsin woman with plastic BBs in August in a university dorm courtyard.
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Kansas freshman forward Markieff Morris agreed to a diversion agreement that will require him to perform 20 hours of community service for shooting a Wisconsin woman with plastic BBs in August in a university dorm courtyard.
The 18-year-old Philadelphia native had been charged with battery and will not have to appear in court tomorrow.
"I've learned a lesson from this, and I apologize for any embarrassment this caused KU and the basketball program," Morris said in a statement.
Campus police said shots were fired from a room in Jayhawker Towers. The 47-year-old woman was hit in the arm and slightly injured. Officers seized a 3-foot-long black Airsoft rifle and medium-sized plastic bag of BBs. *