Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. asking Manhattan DA’s office to drop assault charge after revelation he didn’t break girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick’s neck: lawyers
Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. is asking the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to drop second-degree assault charges after it agreed Porter didn’t break his girlfriend’s neck during an alleged hotel beating, according to his defense team.
Porter, 23, was arrested Monday for allegedly relentlessly beating and choking his girlfriend — former WNBA player Kysre Gondrezick — inside their room at the four-star Millennium Hilton New York Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Prosecutors initially said the savage beatdown left Gondrezick with a fractured vertebra, according to a criminal complaint.
But documents reviewed by The Post showed the fracture was actually a congenital defect and did not come from the row — a fact the DA’s office has now conceded, according to his defense team.
Emily Tuttle, a spokesperson with the DA’s office said: “We will decline to comment on this open and pending case.”
But now, Porter’s team is asking the office to immediately drop the second-degree felony assault charge against him, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment.
If the charge gets dropped, Porter still faces second-degree strangulation and third-degree assault and he would still face a maximum of seven years behind bars if he was convicted on the strangulation charge.
Gondrezick’s lawyer Robert Hantman didn’t immediately return a request for comment. He has previously told The Post exclusively that “misleading and inaccurate” information had been attributed to her, with a source adding she hadn’t made a statement to law enforcement.
The pro-baller, whose full name is Bryan Kevin Porter Jr., was released on $75,000 bail Tuesday for the incident in which he allegedly repeatedly punched Gondrezick and “forcefully” squeezed her neck with his hands, “causing her to experience difficulty breathing, redness and bruising to her neck, and substantial pain,” a criminal complaint said.
Porter — a Seattle native who has a $63.4 million contract with the Rockets — is due back in court Oct. 16.
Porter’s team is trying to trade the player in the wake of the new allegations.
He’s previously been accused of assaulting a woman in Cleveland, though charges were never brought.
