A former girlfriend of Kansas Metropolis Chiefs extensive receiver Rashee Rice filed a civil lawsuit this week in Texas alleging he assaulted her throughout a span from December 2023 to July 2025.
Dacoda Jones, with whom Rice has two youngsters, stated she was pregnant throughout lots of the alleged assaults. She filed the swimsuit on Monday in Dallas County, Texas, and is in search of damages of greater than $1m, in accordance with legal professional Ron Estefan.
Per the lawsuit, Rice and Jones lived collectively in Victory Park, Texas, and Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Jones, within the lawsuit, claims Rice strangled her in December 2023, and alleged that between 2023 and 2025, he “grabbed, choked, strangled, pushed, thrown, scratched, hit and headbutted Ms Jones, in addition to hit her with inanimate objects”.
In keeping with the lawsuit, Rice displayed violent behaviors, together with “throwing objects, destroying property, punching partitions, and breaking furnishings, in addition to locking her out in the course of the night time”.
As a part of the damages within the lawsuit, Jones claimed bodily ache and psychological anguish, bodily impairment, disfigurement, earlier and future medical care and lack of earnings.
Considered one of Jones’s attorneys declined remark to ESPN. Rice, who has not been charged criminally on this matter, and his brokers had not responded to makes an attempt by the Athletic and ESPN for remark.
“The membership is conscious [of the lawsuit] and stays in communication with the Nationwide Soccer League,” the Chiefs stated in a press release Wednesday.
Jones posted images on her Instagram account final month that appeared to point out indicators of bodily abuse.
“I’m so bored with holding quiet I’m so bored with defending his picture,” Jones wrote in a since-deleted submit. “I’ve been by means of an excessive amount of within the span of 8 years and I’ve had ENOUGH! I’ve handled abuse for years, me and this man determined to interrupt up a pair months in the past and since then it’s been nothing however hell.
“He actually left us in Kansas and I needed to beg him to ship cash in order that I might drive to Texas with my youngsters and all our stuff,” she wrote. “We’ve an settlement due to every thing he’s put me by means of and he nonetheless doesn’t comply with it. He’s now making an attempt to take away me and my youngsters from our residence for no obvious purpose. I’ve recognized this man for YEARS. He tries to placed on this persona like he’s dad of the 12 months. He does the naked minimal and I’ve to beg for that. I’ve protected his picture too lengthy and I’m finished doing that. It’s time to guard my peace, defend my youngsters and get up for myself.“
The NFL stated on Wednesday that the matter “stays beneath assessment.“
Rice, 25, began the 2025 season by serving a six-game suspension for violating the league’s private conduct coverage stemming from his function in a multi-car crash in Dallas that left a number of folks injured in the course of the 2024 season. He pleaded responsible in district court docket to 2 third-degree felony prices – collision involving critical bodily harm and racing on a freeway inflicting bodily harm.
The crash concerned six automobiles. Rice and 4 of his buddies didn’t verify on these injured and fled on foot earlier than police arrived.
Rice was sentenced to 5 years of deferred probation and 30 days in jail. He additionally was required to pay greater than $115,000 in restitution to the victims of the crash.
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