Sha’Carri Richardson Arrested for Alleged Assault on Boyfriend Days Before US Championships
U.S. Olympian Sha’Carri Richardson was arrested after an alleged altercation with boyfriend Christian Coleman at Seattle airport earlier this week. The incident, which occurred on Sunday, involved an altercation caught on surveillance, leading to her booking into the South Correctional Entity in Washington. This arrest follows her previous incident in which she was removed from a flight in January 2023.
The couple were at the Seattle Tacoma Airport on Sunday when an officer at the airport was notified by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor of a disturbance between Richardson and her boyfriend, sprinter Christian Coleman, according to the police report, via The Associated Press. Richardson is alleged to have grabbed Coleman’s backpack and yanked it and shoved Coleman into a wall and apparently was caught on surveillance.
The report later said that Richardson appeared to throw an item at Coleman, which the TSA indicated may have been headphones. In the police report, the officer said: