After being arrested for assault, Demond Demas, the Texas A&M receiver, is now facing a new investigation related to an incident involving another girlfriend.
Recently, the father of the woman who claims she was assaulted by Demond Demas reportedly attacked the wide receiver just before a campus conduct hearing. The woman’s parents were charged with misdemeanor assault and taken to Brazos County Jail.
Brianna Turk, currently a student at Prairie View and Demas’ girlfriend since high school, has accused him of slapping and choking her multiple times between the summer of 2020 and early 2021. She spoke publicly for the first time about the abuse she endured.
Turk revealed, “He started to choke me. At that point, I had to take my hands off my face because I was trying to grab his hands to make him let me go. I told him, ‘I can’t breathe!’ He let go for a split second, and I thought that was the end of it. But then he started choking me again, and I was screaming for him to get off me. He eventually let me go, and when he did, I crawled into the bathroom and started crying.”
The Brazos County district attorney’s office initially chose not to press charges, citing a lack of conclusive evidence and a “she said/he said” situation, as per a law enforcement official.
Turk reported the alleged assaults to A&M police in November 2020. The university police department is still investigating the case.
Iesha Turk, Brianna’s mother, made efforts to contact the A&M football program concerning Demas’ alleged abuse of her daughter.
Iesha said, “No one ever reached out from A&M football, and I had sent them a picture of her bruised face. I have never heard back from anyone from the football staff.”
Before these recent events, Demas had been suspended from A&M due to absences from class, a matter unrelated to the assault accusations.
Brianna admitted to overlooking early warning signs and paid a heavy price for it.
She shared, “I just didn’t see it the way everybody else saw it. I thought, ‘Oh, he’s just mad right now…he’ll get over it. He just acts this way sometimes.’ A lot of people around me were warning me it would escalate into a bad situation, but I didn’t recognize the signs.”
After a year of dating, incidents of violence emerged in their relationship, starting with minor hits to her face.
Brianna recounted, “The first time he slapped me in the mouth was upstairs in the movie room of his aunt’s house. I said something ‘smart’ to him, and he doesn’t like it when I talk like that, and he just slapped me in the mouth. I thought, ‘Where did that even come from?’ I was in shock. I told him, ‘You can’t do that because my parents have always told me little things escalate into full-on abuse.’ He said, ‘You know I’d never really harm you, right?'”
In another instance, Brianna was styling his hair when things turned violent.
“I asked him, ‘Can you turn your head so I can finish doing your hair?’ I said it in a way he didn’t like, and he stared at me, and I knew he was going to hit me. I just knew it was coming. This time, he slapped me hard across the face, turning my face to the other side. I sat there crying, and he apologized, saying he was sorry and would never do it again.”
In November 2020, Brianna finally confided in her parents about the abuse she suffered and how she had been trying to conceal a black eye with makeup.
She tearfully shared, “I wanted to tell my mom because I tell her everything, and this was the worst thing that happened to me, but I couldn’t even admit it to her. He said I couldn’t tell anyone because he didn’t want to ‘lose everything.’ I suggested getting help from his aunt, a trauma therapist, but he insisted that she would be upset with him and forbade me from speaking out.”
The Brazos County district attorney’s office mentioned a lack of concrete evidence as the reason for not pursuing charges at that time, referring to it as a “she said/he said” situation.
