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Report has new details in bar fight involving former Texas Tech coach

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A police report reveals new details about an alleged January bar fight involving a former Texas Tech assistant football coach.

Two brothers suing a former Texas Tech assistant football coach for an alleged January assault also pressed criminal charges against him. Lubbock police officials said Wednesday the assault case remains under investigation, but have released a police report from the incident. Police report reveals new details about fight involving former Texas Tech assistant football coach According to the offense report, Lubbock police opened on Feb.

8, an investigation into a Jan. 29 assault at Logie's on Overton. The identity of the suspect in the report was redacted.

However, a civil lawsuit filed in the 72nd District Court in Lubbock by Armani and Arie Williams accuses Zarnell Fitch of assaulting them at the bar, which is also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit that seeks between $200,000 to $1 million in damages. According to the police report, Armani Williams told a responding officer that he and his brother were at a bar with a group that included Fitch. Williams told the officer that Fitch reportedly confronted him after an unidentified woman told Fitch that Williams called him a vulgar name.

Williams said Fitch challenged him to a fight, but didn't believe he was serious. However, Williams told the officer that Fitch hid behind a foyer then punched him in the neck when he wasn't looking, the report states. Arie Williams told the officer that he was standing next to his brother when Fitch reportedly attacked.