In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 file photo, Tennessee running back Treyvon Paulk practices in Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee has dismissed running back Treyvon Paulk from the team following a police report that he hit a woman in the mouth at a party.KNOXVILLE -- The ex-girlfriend of dismissed Tennessee football player Treyvon Paulk told police that the freshman tailback had a history of assaulting her during the course of their seven-and-a-half-year relationship.
According to the University of Tennessee Police Department report, obtained Tuesday by the Times Free Press, detailing the alleged domestic assault incident over the weekend that led to Paulk's dismissal, Chelsea Reese told officers he would awake her and hit her in the face and "put his hands on her."
The report says Reese also worried that Paulk "would lose his scholarship" in the aftermath of him punching her in the mouth Sunday, leaving "abrasions and bruising" to her lips.
Among the witnesses listed in the report were Tennessee freshman linebacker Elliott Berry and two Lady Vols basketball players, Andraya Carter and Isabelle Harrison.
Reese, 18, told police that Paulk confronted Carter verbally "due to previous arguments" before approaching Reese and punching her in the mouth. She told police "all she could remember was tasting blood." Berry pulled Paulk away from Reese, according to the report.
The 5-foot-8, 200-pound Paulk, who was redshirting this season after tearing his ACL during his senior season in high school, couldn't be reached for comment, but he told the Knoxville News Sentinel, "Not once did I raise my fist and hit her."
In his report, one of the two UTPD officers on the scene wrote that Reese "was crying and saying, 'I don't want to talk to them!'" when Carter told her the police had arrived. The officer spoke with Julie Reese, Chelsea's stepmother, who told him Paulk physically assaulted Chelsea "on several other occasions prior to this incident" and that she was "in fear" of him.
Chelsea Reese initially did not want to talk to the UTPD officers, the report states, "because she had been consuming alcoholic beverages and was afraid that she would get in trouble."
The Knox County Sheriff's Office then took over the case and said in a release on Monday that Paulk faced no charges.
Contact Patrick Brown at pbrown@timesfreepress.com.