SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington State football player Shalom Luani will not face charges in connection with a fight at a Pullman pizza parlor that left one man with a broken nose and Luani with a concussion, the Whitman County prosecutor said Monday.
Prosecutor Denis Tracy said the investigation showed that Luani probably threw the punch on Aug. 24 that broke the nose of one man. But Tracy said that Luani could have been found to be acting in self-defense.
"In order to prove that a criminal assault happened, the prosecutor must not only prove that the suspect hit someone, but the prosecutor must also prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspect was not acting in self-defense," Tracy wrote in a statement.