Post by shaneomac1 on Jul 25, 2012 12:23:41 GMT -6
Tyler Bray
Michael Grandinetti
Photo by UTSports.com
Michael Grandinetti
The Landings
Tennessee junior quarterback Tyler Bray has been accused of throwing beer bottles off an apartment complex balcony onto parked vehicles, according to an incident report filed with the Knoxville Police Department on Monday.
No charges have been filed as of this afternoon in the incident, which occurred at the apartments on 960 Riverside Forest Way.
Kirstie Allen, who resides at the apartment complex, said she called E-911 when she observed two people throwing beer bottles off the balcony. She said she recognized them as the 20-year-old Bray and Michael Grandinetti, a 26-year-old University of Tennessee graduate who formerly worked in the video department of the UT football office.
Allen called police on Monday to report that her car had been vandalized.
Allen went into her apartment Monday to eat lunch about 1:10 p.m., according to the incident report. When she left her apartment about 30 minutes later, she saw that the front windshield of her car had been smashed. She estimated the damages at more than $500.
She told police that she thought her car was damaged in retaliation for her calling the police on Bray and Grandinetti over the beer bottle incident "a couple nights ago."
Allen said an office manager in the apartment complex told her Bray and Grandinetti had been served with an eviction notice just prior to her arriving home for lunch.
This is the second offseason incident involving a UT football player. Sophomore tight end Cameron Clear was dismissed from the team in May after he was charged with theft of a laptop from a UT baseball player. He pleaded guilty last Friday in Knox County General Sessions Court to an amended charge of misdemeanor theft.
Bray, who has started parts of the past two seasons, is one of UT's most prominent players. Last week, coach Derek Dooley called him "the face of our offense" during SEC Football Media Days, which Bray also attended, in Hoover, Ala.
Grandinetti, a former manager with the Lady Vols basketball program, is now employed by UT's business department as a technology integrated specialist, according to his LinkedIn page.
