Former Duke and NBA participant Kyle Singler has been charged with assault in Oklahoma.
Haskell County deputies say Singler and his girlfriend have been staying at an Airbnb in Whitefield in japanese Oklahoma when he allegedly tried to rape her, grabbed her and pushed her down final Thursday.
A toddler within the house on the time of the incident was deemed protected. The alleged sufferer informed deputies she shares the younger baby with Singler.
Singler was booked on the county jail on a misdemeanor assault cost and later launched on $6,000 bond. He was formally charged Tuesday with one misdemeanor depend of assault and battery within the presence of a kid.
Kyle Singler attends the NBPA All-Star Gamers Social at Capitale on Feb. 14, 2015 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Photographs for Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation)
The incident got here lower than a yr after Singler made a sequence of weird Instagram posts the place he claimed he feared for his life and that his “community” was conspiring towards him.
“I have been mistreated and abused, neglected, made into a mental example,” Singler mentioned in a brief video. “I fear for my life every day. And people in my community make me look out as if I’m going to be someone that’s going to be a problem and make things difficult for people when I’m only trying to be helpful.”
A highschool All-American in Oregon, Singler starred at Duke for 4 seasons, profitable the NCAA championship in 2010. He was taken by the Detroit Pistons within the second spherical of the 2011 NBA draft the place he performed elements of three seasons earlier than being traded to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder.
After the 2018 season, he performed in Spain and the Canary Islands however retired from skilled basketball for private causes within the fall of 2019.
