Mo Alie-Cox Charged with Assault and Battery: Latest Details and Comments

Virginia Commonwealth redshirt sophomore and basketball player Mo Alie-Cox was charged with misdemeanor assault and was set to stand trial after an April 3 altercation with a woman in Richmond, Virginia. The charge has since been dropped.

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Alie-Cox Charge Dropped

Thursday, May 28

Brandon Shulleeta of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the charge against Alie-Cox will be dropped:

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A misdemeanor assault charge against Mo Alie-Cox will be dismissed on the heels of Richmond prosecutors obtaining video footage that appears to disprove a woman's claim that the VCU basketball star punched her in the face, Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Michael N. Herring said this afternoon.

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Shulleeta reported on May 20 that Alie-Cox would stand trial on June 15 as he faced a misdemeanor assault charge.

Scott Wise and Lane Casadonte of WTVR.com had the report about the incident involving Alie-Cox:

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The woman said it began when she walked by a group of men and another woman at Society in Shockoe Slip. The other woman, she said, told her not to look in her direction.

"I said I could look where ever I pleased and she responded with a comment I did not here [sic] and got in my face," the complainant wrote in the court document. "A VCU basketball player made a comment with me responding 'it's not my fault Shaka Smart left. Is that why your [sic] mad?'"

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Shaka Smart, the former VCU coach, recently took the head coaching job at the University of Texas. The report continued: 

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After the Shaka Smart comment was made, the complainant said the other woman shoved her. The complainant said she then accidentally grabbed the other woman's hair. That is when Alie-Cox allegedly entered the picture, the woman said.

"Mo Alie-Cox punched me in the face," she wrote in the criminal complaint. "I went to the bouncer to ask for help and Mo Alie-Cox left."

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VCU released a statement after the charges were filed. 

"We are aware of the charge against Mo Alie-Cox, and we will continue to monitor the situation closely," VCU director of athletics Ed McLaughlin told WTVR.com. "We will allow the legal process to run its course and act appropriately within our VCU Athletics Student-Athlete Code of Conduct as more details become clear."

Cox averaged 7.4 points and 5.7 rebounds in 25.9 minutes per game and was expected to be an important contributor for the team in the 2015-16 season. He played well for VCU down the stretch, notching 18 points and eight rebounds in the team's March contest against Davidson and seven points and seven rebounds in an NCAA tournament loss to Ohio State.