Two Kutztown University football players have been reinstated to the team after police cleared them of wrongdoing in a fraternity brawl that injured two Bloomsburg University students, a KU spokesman said Tuesday.
Bloomsburg police told KU officials that the players, Jake Wygant, 18, of Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, and Eric Condron, 20, of Philadelphia would not be charged in the fight in Bloomsburg, spokesman David Johnson said.
The two players were part of a larger, on-going investigation into the events of that night, Bloomsburg Police Officer Melanie Readler said.
While Wygant and Condron have been cleared, Readler said that she is still interviewing people who attended the Feb. 23 party.
Kutztown officials had suspended the pair from the football team after they were mentioned in court documents relating to the fight.
Bloomsburg police have charged two other Kutztown players, Angel Cruz, 20, of Robesonia, and Justin Wieder, 20, of Quakertown, Bucks County, with aggravated assault and related offenses. They remain suspended from the football team.
Police have said that Kutztown players crashed a Zeta Psi fraternity party near the Bloomsburg campus about 1 a.m. Feb. 23 and refused to leave. A fight broke out among about 15 to 20 people.
Bloomsburg student Jackie Lithgow, 19, of Carlisle suffered a traumatic brain injury and remains in a rehabilitation center, a blog started by his parents says.
Another student, Donald Hoover, 19, of Birdsboro was hospitalized but has since been released, officials said.
Cruz, a Conrad Weiser High School graduate and Kutztown freshman running back, is being held in Columbia County Prison on $150,000 bail. Wieder, a junior tailback, is free on $100,000 bail.
The suspects face a hearing on April 1 before District Judge Russell L. Lawton in Bloomsburg.
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