Shilo Sanders chapter trial: Safety guard testifies, particulars accidents

Published On: September 3, 2026

Up to date Sept. 2, 2026, 9:51 p.m. ET

A former college safety guard testified that Shilo Sanders assaulted him in 2015, inflicting long-term accidents.
Shilo Sanders is in a chapter trial to discharge an $11.89 million judgment he owes the guard, John Darjean.
Darjean said the incident occurred after Deion Sanders requested him to confiscate his son’s cellphone.

DENVER – A former college safety guard testified right here Wednesday, Sept. 2, that he began peeing down his leg and felt dizzy and off-balance after former Colorado soccer participant Shilo Sanders hit him “tremendous, tremendous laborious” with a roundhouse left elbow to the neck space in 2015 when he tried to confiscate Sanders’ cellphone at Deion Sanders’ request.

The safety guard, John Darjean, testified for greater than two hours Wednesday within the ongoing chapter trial of Shilo Sanders, who’s making an attempt to free himself from an $11.89 million judgment he owes Darjean over this similar incident at his college in Dallas on Sept. 17, 2015.

Darjean, 50, additionally testified concerning the conversations he had by cellphone that day with Shilo Sanders’ father Deion, the Colorado soccer coach. However earlier than and through his testimony, Darjean took a number of breaks to cope with ongoing again ache that he mentioned stems from the accidents he obtained that day from Shilo Sanders, together with incontinence. At one level earlier than he testified, Darjean even went to the again of the courtroom to put face-down on the carpeted ground for aid.

“I began urinating on myself,” Darjean testified concerning the aftermath of the incident in 2015. “I had plenty of pee going doing my leg and I used to be like, `Why am I peeing on myself?”

Darjean testified Shilo Sanders, then 15 years previous, hit him thrice — first with the elbow, then two punches to the face earlier than he bought up, felt lightheaded and finally bought taken to the hospital in an ambulance.

This was Day 3 of Sanders’ chapter trial, the place Shilo Sanders additionally testified once more and doubled down on his assertion that Darjean attacked him, not the opposite method round, contradicting a number of different witnesses and the findings of a Texas state decide in 2022.

“I did nothing to Mr. Darjean,” Shilo Sanders testified Wednesday.

Shilo Sanders testifies about images within the case

Beneath questioning from Darjean’s legal professional Ori Raphael, Sanders, 26, mentioned he couldn’t bear in mind if he filed a police report back to accuse Darjean of assault or if he went to a physician to get remedy after he mentioned Darjean choked him, triggered him to black out and began to tear the pores and skin off his arm when he grabbed it in an effort to retrieve Sanders’ cellphone.

He testified he noticed a nurse afterward.

“Did she take images of you?” Raphael requested him.

“As I recall, I believe so,” Sanders responded.

“You don’t have these images, is that proper?” Raphael requested him.

“I don’t have any images (from the nurse),” Sanders responded.

Sanders did testify about different images he mentioned he personally took of his accidents from Darjean that day after the incident — images that present some marks on his higher arm and decrease neck however don’t present his pores and skin tearing off, as he testified on Sept. 1. Raphael questioned when the images have been taken precisely and whether or not one other damage may need triggered the marks.

What is occurring in Shilo Sanders’ chapter trial?

Nearly every part on this trial has been about what completely different folks noticed, did and heard at Shilo Sanders’ college in Dallas on Sept. 17, 2015. That’s when Darjean mentioned Sanders assaulted him and completely injured him when he tried to confiscate his cellphone pursuant to high school coverage.

Darjean sued Sanders over it in 2016, resulting in a $11.89 million default judgment towards Sanders after Sanders didn’t present up on the trial in 2022. The decide at that trial in Texas wrote in her remaining judgment that Shilo Sanders “did in reality trigger bodily hurt and accidents to John Darjean by assaulting him” that day.

Then when Darjean moved to gather on that judgment in 2023, Sanders filed for Chapter 7 chapter in an effort to free himself of that debt and get a “recent begin.”

This trial is about whether or not he might be allowed to try this or if he’ll stay on the hook to pay it. In keeping with chapter regulation, debtors aren’t allowed to discharge debt if the debt stems from a “willful and malicious damage.”

Darjean’s legal professional has argued Sanders ought to be denied a discharge as a result of the debt does stem from a willful and malicious damage. That’s what he’s making an attempt to show at trial so Darjean can accumulate on the debt. In his protection, Sanders says he didn’t strike Darjean in any respect and as a substitute was the sufferer of Darjean’s aggression.

The decide will determine after trial primarily based on a preponderance of the proof.

Darjean testifies about his conversations with Deion Sanders

Darjean testified Wednesday about being summoned to get Shilo Sanders out of sophistication in school as a result of Sanders was suspected of enjoying cube towards college coverage.

Darjean mentioned Shilo Sanders additionally was violating college coverage by having a cellphone out throughout college hours. Darjean finally confiscated the cube however not the cellphone, although he tried, particularly after he mentioned Deion Sanders requested him by cellphone to retrieve it as a result of he didn’t need him to speaking to his mom, Pilar.

This request dramatically escalated Sanders’ agitation that day, Darjean testified. In keeping with Darjean, Shilo Sanders mentioned, “I hate my daddy” and didn’t wish to quit his cellphone whereas he spoke together with his mom.

Deion and Pilar Sanders divorced in 2013.

Deion Sanders served as John Darjean’s boss

Along with working as a safety guard, Darjean was a baseball coach on the college reporting to Deion Sanders, the athletic director. That made Deion Sanders his boss.

In keeping with Darjean, Deion Sanders advised him, “Do me an enormous favor. I’m your brother in Christ.”

Darjean testified Wednesday Deion Sanders then requested him, “In Jesus’ identify, please go get the cellphone.”

Whereas he approached Shilo Sanders within the college health club to get the cellphone, Darjean mentioned Sanders warned him that “I’m gonna swing on you” and “bust you in your (expletive) head.”

Then Darjean testified Shilo Sanders struck him together with his elbow and fist after he grabbed his arm to attempt to information him again to Darjean’s workplace.

Darjean is predicted to take the witness stand once more Thursday in a trial that might run by way of Friday. Deion Sanders may testify Friday afternoon, however provided that sure subjects come up earlier than then, because the decide beforehand dominated.

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