NORFOLK, Va. — The attorney for Tennessee Titans wide receiver Justin Hunter said Monday that his client didn’t sucker punch anybody outside a Virginia Beach bar following a massive brawl inside of it over the July Fourth weekend.
Hunter has been charged with malicious wounding in his hometown for punching someone multiple times, although he’s been released on bond.
Prosecutors contend Hunter interrupted a conversation a man was having with someone else at the Sandbar Raw Bar in the oceanfront resort area of the city. After words were exchanged, Hunter punched the man in the face twice, according to prosecutors. After a melee ensued and the bar was cleared, prosecutors contend the man who Hunter originally punched was bent over and spitting out blood on the sidewalk, and Hunter “sucker punched” him again, before hopping into a waiting vehicle. Prosecutors said the man’s jaw was broken and he had to be treated at a hospital.
On Monday, Hunter attorney Toby Vick said the sucker punch never happened.
“He didn’t sucker punch anybody. We’re confident we’ll be able to establish that,” Vick said in a telephone interview from his Richmond office.