Niners release Bruce Miller amid reports fullback assaulted 70-year-old man
The San Francisco 49ers released Bruce Miller on Monday after the fullback was arrested earlier in the morning following an alleged assault.
According to KTVU, Miller tried to check into Fisherman's Wharf Marriott Hotel in San Francisco on Sunday night but was told there were no rooms available. He later returned to the hotel and knocked on a guest's door but was told he had the wrong room. Miller then engaged in a physical confrontation with the man, and punched the man's 70-year-old father in the face, per the report.
Miller fled the scene but was later arrested, according to KTVU, and both guests were transported to the hospital with injuries.
Security footage, obtained later Monday by KTVU, appears to show Miller bloody and wobbly after the alleged assault.
Miller was arrested on four felony counts: two of criminal threats, one of assault with a deadly weapon — not a firearm, and one of elder abuse, as well as a misdemeanor battery charge.
Sgt. Brown of the San Francisco County Sheriff's Department told Paste BN Sports that Miller was in the process of posting $178,000 bond. (Sgt. Brown declined to offer her first name.) Miller was no longer listed in custody as of 5:30 pm ET.
Miller was arrested in March 2015 and was accused of shoving his ex-fiancee and destroying her cell phone in an argument. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace.