Two women say they found the girlfriend of Seahawks draft pick Frank Clark sprawled half-naked on her hotel-room floor and barely moving the night of his arrest on charges of domestic violence and assault.
Lis Babson, 44, and Kristie Colie, 43, who were in the room next door with their young daughters at a Sandusky, Ohio, hotel and waterpark resort last November, say they heard loud banging, yelling and screaming coming from Clark’s room. Babson says she immediately sensed something was terribly wrong, ran outside and pounded on the door until Clark opened it.
In an interview with The Seattle Times on Monday, Babson said an enraged Clark tried to quickly slam the door in her face, but she caught it before it could close.
Colie, who had followed Babson into the hallway, said the woman on the floor inside the room “was definitely beat up” and initially didn’t move.
“She looked unconscious,’’ Colie said. “She looked like she was knocked out, and then she started to move slowly.’’
The two women’s accounts corroborate details in a police report describing the incident involving Clark and his then-girlfriend, Diamond Hurt — and they stand in contrast to statements by Seahawks officials who have had to explain their selection of Clark in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday.
A sought-after defensive end with Michigan just six months ago, Clark was kicked off the team Nov. 17, two days after his arrest.
But the Seahawks made him the 63rd overall pick in the draft, saying team officials had conducted an extensive investigation of their own and felt confident that the 6-foot-2, 277-pound Clark had not struck his girlfriend. The team acknowledged on Monday that their investigation did not include interviews with witnesses other than Clark.
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SOURCE: Geoff Baker
The Seattle Times
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