McCoy denies allegation of assault
Claims made online that running back bloodied face of former girlfriend
LeSean McCoy, a running back for the Buffalo Bills, strongly denied allegations that spread on social media Tuesday that he had violently assaulted a woman.
“For the record, the totally baseless and offensive claims made against me are completely false,” McCoy said on his own social media accounts. “Further more, I have not had any direct contact with any of the people involved in months.”
McCoy’s statement was made a few hours after a photograph and a message were posted on Instagram showing what appeared to be a girlfriend of his, Delicia Cordon, with a bloodied face. The account appeared to belong to a friend of Cordon’s. The message contained a range of allegations against McCoy. None of them could be independently corroborated as of Tuesday afternoon. The NFL and the Bills said they were looking into the matter. McCoy entered the NFL in 2009 and played his first six seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles before joining the Bills.
McCoy tried to evict Cordon from his home in Alpharetta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, last July, according to court documents. “Plaintiff and defendant no longer in relationship and plaintiff allowed defendant to live rent-fee while at premises for 5 months,” documents filed in Fulton County Magistrate Court said. She “refuses to leave,” the documents added.
In court documents filed in a separate case last month, McCoy asked for Cordon to “return any/all items removed from premises.” A hearing in that case was set for Tuesday, but was postponed Monday to Aug. 14, at the request of Tanya Mitchell Graham, Cordon’s lawyer. A woman who answered the phone at Graham’s office Tuesday declined to comment.