LSU tackle Jevonte Domond suspended after domestic abuse charge

BATON ROUGE – LSU football coach Les Miles indefinitely suspended reserve offensive tackle Jevonte Domond on Tuesday shortly after learning that Domond was arrested and jailed Monday by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's office on a felony battery charge involving domestic abuse.

Domond, 22, allegedly strangled and slammed his fiancée onto their couch in their Baton Rouge apartment, according to the Sheriff's office report.

"It's a crime that we cannot condone and behavior that we will not tolerate," Miles said while at the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida, Tuesday afternoon to the Baton Rouge Advocate. "I'm not familiar with the specifics. I'm trying to get the specifics."

A reserve junior college transfer from Glendale Community College in Glendale, Arizona, who signed with LSU last summer, Domond was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Monday and remained there late Tuesday, according to the Sheriff's office.

During an argument with his fiancée, the 6-foot-6, 310-pound Domond allegedly lifted the woman off the ground by the back of her neck as she was leaning over and looking at their baby, then he dropped her, according to the Sheriff's office report. The woman told deputies that Domond also picked her up and "slammed her on the couch" and bit her. Deputies said the woman said she started to lose consciousness, but managed to spray Domond with pepper spray multiple times.

Domond later told the Sheriff's office in a statement that he neither strangled nor bit his fiancée and that she previously pulled a kitchen knife on him. He said he did pick her up, but only did so to make her stop dousing him with pepper spray.

Glenn Guilbeau covers LSU athletics for Gannett Louisiana.