Utah Players Are Suspended

A Utah player was arrested on charges of breaking a baseball bat over the head of a teenager, sending him to the hospital with serious head injuries.

Defensive end Sean Patrick O’Keefe was immediately suspended after being booked into the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Complex on Monday. The freshman walk-on was being held without bail on suspicion of aggravated assault.

Linebacker Corey Dodds also was suspended because the school received information he was involved in the beating, school spokeswoman Liz Abel said.

A Salt Lake City Police Department spokesman said the arrest stemmed from a fight at a weekend party where police said O’Keefe broke a the bat over a 17-year-old boy’s head. The boy, who was not identified by police, remained hospitalized Monday.

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