Judge Dismisses Charges

A Virginia Tech track athlete testified he was chased and beaten by a pack of football players and suffered a broken collarbone when a wide receiver hit him with a cane.

But in the first trial of a football player in the case, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray Grubbs dismissed the attempted malicious wounding charge against the receiver, Angelo Harrison.

Three football players testified that Harrison was not involved in the beating of sprinter Hilliard Sumner. And three prosecution witnesses said it was too dark to identify who took part in the Aug. 31 attack on the Virginia Tech campus.

Harrison’s attorney, Marc Long, said Harrison will be returning to the football team and will play this fall.