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Armed student 'protecting' UK basketball player Tai Wynyard, fraternities and sororities warn

UK coach John Calipari previews Tennessee, talks adjustment to game plan after Missouri loss. Jon Hale/Courier Journal

LEXINGTON, Ky. — University of Kentucky fraternity and sorority members used a group messaging app to warn each other last month about a potentially dangerous student who carried a gun to a party to protect UK basketball player Tai Wynyard.

Messages to the student, whom Courier Journal is not naming because no criminal charges were filed, were not immediately returned.

Wynyard, a redshirt sophomore forward from New Zealand, has been suspended from all team activities for a violation of team rules, though UK associate media relations director Eric Lindsey would not confirm when the suspension was handed down or if it was connected to the allegation.