A Blount County (Tenn.) judge has dismissed the homicide case against Camion Patrick, who played football at Indiana and East Mississippi Community College — the center of the hit Netflix series "Last Chance U."
Charges will proceed against his brother, Isaiah Wright, also of "Last Chance U" fame, and two others arrested in connection to a July stabbing death in Alcoa, Tenn.
According to The Daily Times (Maryville, Tenn.), Blount County Judge William R. Brewer in a Tuesday preliminary hearing ruled prosecutors failed to show probable cause that Patrick, 23, was involved in the July 25 stabbing death of Caleb Radford, 18. The same charges against Wright, 20, will go to a grand jury to determine whether he should be indicted.
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Both Patrick and Wright were arrested in September in connection with Radford's death. Patrick was arraigned in Bloomington, Ind., where he was placed on medical hardship after suffering injuries while playing for Indiana football; Wright was arrested in Harriman, Tenn.
According to the Times' report, Patrick, Wright and two others (Keshawn Lonnell Hopewell, 21 and Itiq Tivone Green, 28) planned to meet Radford to sell him a half-pound of marijuana. While Patrick and Wright waited behind the apartment complex, Hopewell, Green and Radford drove away in Radford's vehicle. Accounts from Hopewell and Green differ slightly from there, but both Hopewell and Green said the latter stabbed Radford before the two took between $800 and $1,000 from him. Hopewell and Green then returned to the complex, where Patrick and Wright got into the car and drove off to a residence in which the two brothers lived.
Patrick redshirted in 2013 at East Mississippi Community College before helping the team to a JUCO national title in 2014. He enrolled at Indiana in 2015, though academic and medical issues ended his college career before the 2017 season. Wright also played at EMCC, where he was one of the featured players on Season 2 of "Last Chance U." He later enrolled at West Georgia, though he left the school before the start of the 2017 season.
