Purdue Player Charged With Battery

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) â€” Purdue football player Steve Ennis was charged Monday in an October attack that left a classmate with a fractured skull and eye socket. <br><br>The sophomore running back

Tuesday, January 30th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) â€” Purdue football player Steve Ennis was charged Monday in an October attack that left a classmate with a fractured skull and eye socket.

The sophomore running back is accused of hitting Matthew Alexander in the head and then punching him in the jaw on Oct. 22. He is charged with battery and criminal recklessness.

Witnesses said Alexander hit his head on the pavement in front of a West Lafayette bar when he fell. The 22-year-old sophomore from Valparaiso spent six days in the hospital.

Ennis, 21, of Flower Mound, Texas, has declined to give police his account of what happened.

But, according to court records, Ennis told others that Alexander had been talking wildly to him inside a bar and then approached him outside.

``I would like to see him kicked out of Purdue University,'' Alexander said. ``I'd feel better to know he was in jail. I would like to be reimbursed for all that I've lost.''

A university official said Monday that Ennis will remain suspended indefinitely.

Ennis, 6-foot and 218 pounds, was suspended from the team in December before the Boilermakers' played in their first Rose Bowl in 34 years.