Rutgers Football Players Arrested Thursday Dismissed From Program

The five Rutgers football players who are among the seven students arrested this week have been dismissed from the football program, head football coach Kevin Flood announced today.

Nadir Barnwell, 20, of Piscataway Dre Boggs, 20, of Coatseville, Pa. Razohnn Gross, 20, of Franklin Park, Ruhann Peele, 22, of Piscataway and Delon Stephenson, 22, of Sayreville have all been dismissed.

Rutgers suspended all seven students arrested this week, including four facing assault and riot charges, and three charged in connection with a home invasion. Those seven students were among the ten people charged Thursday.

In one case, authorities say six young men were involved in an unprovoked attack on a group of people on Delafield Street in the city in April. Four of the defendants are football players at the university and the other two are former students who also previously played on the football team.

One of those former students, along with four other people - including another university football player and two more students - were charged in connection with a home invasion.

The five football players were suspended from the team on Thursday; all seven students are now on interim suspension from the school, according to a statement from Rutgers.

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Former Rutgers student Tejay Johnson, 23, of Egg Harbor along with Peele, Barnwell, Gross, Stephenson and his brother Daryl Stephenson, 23, another former student, were charged in connection with the assault on Delafield Street that left a 19-year-old student with a broken jaw, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Daryl Stephenson remains at large, authorities said. All six are charged with aggravated assault, riot, and conspiracy to commit a riot.

Johnson is also charged in connection with two home invasions in the city and a third at a dorm in Piscataway, authorities said.

He is the lone defendant in an April 26 home invasion case on Prosper Street in the city.

Johnson, Boggs and another student, Dylan Mastriana, 19, of Rio Grande, are charged with robbery, burglary while armed, and conspiracy to commit an armed robbery in connection with an April 27 case on Harwell Street in the city.

Johnson, Boggs, Mastriana, Jianan Chen, 19, of New Brunswick, and Kaylanna Ricks, 20, of Perth Amboy, were all charged with robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and attempted burglary while armed in connection with a May 5 case on the Livingston campus.

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