 Ty'Relle Harris (pictured) will no longer write nor play for Pacific.
Ty’Relle Harris, a twenty-year-old sophomore from Fairfield attended a party put on by an 18 year old girl whom attends Delta College. While at the party, Ty’Relle was accused of taking an iPod from the girls’ house.
Ty’Relle, being an honest young man had not but was still confronted and thus patted down by this young woman’s friends. One of Ty’Relle’s friends was also patted down and a shot glass of theirs was found in his pockets. This started a pushing fest, which resulted in Ty’Relle and the host of the party having a verbal argument.
“As soon as she made contact with my face, her guy friends were already jumping me and choking me,” Harris said. The fight went on for a couple of minutes and the young lady asked the guys who were there from the Pacific Baseball team to leave.
While Ty’Relle was still being choked he taunted his attacker by saying “come outside!”
He and his teammates went outside and the attacking guys followed them leading to another fight on the doorstep of the house. Ty’Relle, at 220lbs, standing 6-foot-4 had multiple guys on his back. He was pushed, and while trying to stop his fall, his hand went through a glass window.
With blood all over the place Ty’Relle quickly left and went to St. Joesph’s Medical Center on El Dorado. He checked into the emergency room at 12 mid-night and received 21 stitches for his wounds on his hand.
His doctor said there is no way he could have punched a window “there are no cuts on my fist, only cuts on my wrist, fingertips, thumb and middle fingers.”  Ty'Relle received 21 stitches for his wounds. Most of them
on his thumb and middle finger.
While at the hospital, Ty’Relle called his parents to let them know what happened and his mom said she would come get him.
As soon as he got back to Grace Covell after being checked out of the ER at 3:15 AM, he packed a small bag and was on the road at 3:30 AM to go home. He got back to Fairfield around 4:15 – 4:20 AM.
His coach called him at 4:32 AM and said he heard he was just at a house party in Stockton, smashing windows and flashing a gun in the air. Ty’Relle, in shock at this news replied, “this is all news to me, I am sitting at my house in Fairfield.”
His coach who goes on to say that the police report says that he was fighting which is a violation of a policy setup as per being on the baseball team. Since the police and the university got involved, it just made things worse. Everyone who was involved with the incident who was on the baseball team has been removed from the team.
The girl called the police at 4:30 AM, five hours after Mr. Harris said the event took place, saying Ty’Relle assaulted her at her house at 4:30 AM during a party and punched a window and left. There was no comment about any alcohol being involved.
As per an article written on January 18, 2007 that appeared in The Record titled “Five Pacific baseball players kicked off team”. The reporter writes “Witnesses told police Harris left the premises following an altercation with the woman at about 4:30 a.m. A short time later, two unidentified males arrived at the home, one with a handgun. A number of partygoers retreated inside the house as the men approached the front door. The two men allegedly smashed more of the broken glass at the front of the home before fleeing.”
Ty’Relle could face charges of assault and vandalism. He has since been kicked out of Pacific and has enrolled in a junior college in Sacramento. The police said they would look into both sides of the story and let him know what they come up with.
Ty’Relle Harris came back to Pacific on Monday, January 22, 2007 to pick up a copy of his transcript. Pacific and The Pacifican will miss this fine young athlete, writer, student and friend.
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