Seahawks release reserve QB Boykin amid domestic violence investigation

The Seattle Seahawks announced Tuesday they released reserve quarterback Trevone Boykin. The move comes a day after his girlfriend, Shabrika Bailey, told WFAA that he assaulted her.

Police in Mansfield, Texas, are reportedly investigating the incident.

Bailey, speaking through a broken and wired jaw, said the assault occurred last Tuesday night at Boykin's Mansfield home after an argument about a text message he wanted to see on her phone. Boykin attacked her when she refused to unlock her phone, she said.

"So he goes into a choke. I remember him choking me and I'm trying to calm him down. And I just couldn't. And I blacked out. I just couldn't calm him down at all," Bailey told WFAA.

"The pressure was just hard. The pressure got hard to where I just remember just collapsing completely. And I just woke up in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. My whole right side was full of blood on the kitchen floor."

Bailey said Boykin later dragged her into a bathtub to clean her up, drove her to Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas, on Wednesday, then fled the hospital and didn't return after the couple was separated and questioned by hospital staff. She sustained a broken jaw on both sides and had to be transported to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas for further treatment due to difficulty breathing from a swollen airway. She was released three days later.

Mansfield detectives separately interviewed Bailey and her brother at her Mesquite home Tuesday morning and later told WFAA that Boykin was under investigation. He's since released a statement proclaiming his innocence.

Bailey, who said she has dated Boykin since high school, was arrested with him in March of last year on intoxication assault charges for backing into and injuring several pedestrians outside a Dallas nightclub. Boykin, a passenger in her car, fled the scene, but later returned and was arrested for public intoxication and possession of 6.9 grams of marijuana. Bailey told WFAA the incident followed another assault by Boykin.

"He leaned over, attacked me, and choked me unconscious, which made the car go into drive to reverse," she said.

Bailey said she declared the crash an accident at Boykin's behest, and he asked her to do the same regarding last week's reported assault in an effort to salvage his football career.

Boykin signed with the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent out of Texas Christian University in 2016 and saw limited action in his rookie season. He hasn't seen the field since.