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Pittsburgh Basketball's Dior Johnson Charged with Assaulting Woman in September

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Pittsburgh guard Dior Johnson has been charged with aggravated and simple assault, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment and strangulation after allegedly assaulting a woman at an apartment in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

According to WTAE-TV Pittsburgh, the woman said Johnson "slapped her across the face" on the night of Sept. 5 after she got his phone wet.

Johnson left the apartment and returned at 4 a.m. ET the following morning. He and the woman began arguing at 8:30 a.m. and after another hour he "got violent and repeatedly punched (the woman) in her arms, stomach, and head multiple times.