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Texas Coach Chris Beard Arrested

Disturbing news out of Austin as head coach Chris Beard was booked on domestic violence charges at 4:18 AM Monday morning.

Details are still emerging, but Tony Phloteski of Austin TV station KVUE tweets that Beard “strangled a person” and that police responded to a 911 call at 2:07 AM.

According to Tyler Greenawalt over at Yahoo, “[a]n Austin Police spokesperson told Yahoo Sports that they received a Priority 1 “disturbance hot shot call” at 12:15 a.m. Officers were then dispatched to a home on the 1900 block of Vista Lane in Tarrytown, an upscale Austin neighborhood near the UT campus.