Courtney Smith: I was never told why Zach wasn't charged for 2015 incident

Courtney Smith said Wednesday she was never given a reason why charges weren't filed against her ex-husband, Zach, after a seven-month investigation into her domestic violence claims in 2015, according to ESPN's Dan Murphy.

Smith said she filed a domestic assault report with the Powell Police Department on Oct. 26, 2015. She told a detective that Zach came to her condo and verbally abused her, pushed her into a wall, and left with their young son against her will.

It was the second time Smith had accused her estranged husband of domestic abuse to police. Her first report came in 2009 when he was still a graduate assistant at Florida. She dropped the charges after a staffer in the football program told her the aspiring coach's career would be damaged.

Zach Smith became the wide receivers coach at Ohio State in 2012. He held the position until his firing in July 2018, when his past domestic incidents were brought to light by the media.

In the 2015 incident report obtained by Dean Narciso and Rita Price of The Columbus Dispatch, Smith said she feared for her life after taking years of abuse from her husband.

She told authorities the Buckeyes assistant had choked her until she couldn't breathe, threw her off a bed by her neck, threw her into a wooden stair, cut her hand open with a tin can, and repeatedly threatened to kill her over the previous year.