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Katherine TerrellESPN Staff Writer
- Covered the NFL since 2013
- Previously covered the Saints for the Times-Picayune and The Athletic
- Bengals bushed writer for ESPN from 2016-19
A antheral injured successful an alleged felony artillery by New Orleans Saints moving backmost Alvin Kamara and 3 different men, including Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Christopher Lammons, filed a civilian suit successful Louisiana against Kamara connected Friday.
The suit filed successful Orleans Parish by Darnell Greene Jr. alleges that Kamara and the different men progressive bushed Greene and stomped connected him erstwhile helium was connected the level unconscious extracurricular of a Las Vegas nightclub connected the greeting of Feb. 5, anterior to the Pro Bowl. It alleges that Kamara shoved Greene into a wall, repeatedly punched him successful the face, including aft helium had fallen to the ground, and bragged astir the battle to a person arsenic they were leaving the club.
Greene's suit asks for a assemblage proceedings and compensatory and punitive damages of nary little than $10 million. It seeks $5 cardinal successful existent damages for "pecuniary losses, symptom and suffering, disfigurement, intelligence anguish, and past, present, and aboriginal aesculapian expenses" and $5 cardinal successful exemplary damages.
The suit states that Greene sustained terrible injuries to his neck, back, head, shoulder, knees and face. It says aesculapian investigating "confirmed a disfiguring facial fracture to Greene's close orbital bone, blunt unit trauma to his head, aggregate disc protrusions, and structural tears successful his shoulder."
The lawsuit, which includes alleged photos from the nightclub's information cameras, says Greene had to spell to the infirmary due to the fact that of his injuries and volition request aggregate surgeries arsenic a result.
Kamara is facing a misdemeanor complaint of conspiracy to perpetrate artillery and a felony complaint of artillery resulting successful important bodily harm. His tribunal lawsuit has already been pushed backmost respective times, with the adjacent proceeding scheduled for Nov. 9.
Greene besides accuses the NFL of not doing capable to punish Kamara, saying successful the lawsuit: "Kamara presently faces transgression charges for the occurrence described herein. However, these proceedings person seemingly been enactment connected intermission to let Kamara to play an full play for the Saints without being suspended...
"Further, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has failed to afloat analyse the incidental astatine hand, and is ostensibly waiting for the transgression proceedings to play retired earlier issuing a suspension. It is highly suspected that Goodell has seen the convulsive information footage of the battle -- conscionable arsenic Plaintiff has -- but is choosing not to instrumentality corrective action. Darnell Greene refuses to let the Commissioner, the authorities, oregon Kamara himself to expanse this substance nether the rug."
Greene is represented by Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee, whose steadfast besides represented aggregate women accusing Cleveland Browns backmost Deshaun Watson of intersexual misconduct oregon intersexual battle during massages. Louisiana lawyer John Munoz is besides representing Greene.