The alleged victim, who was not fully identified in the report or in court Tuesday, told police she had received a frantic phone call from her son, who had been staying with Chung, at around 6:40 p.m. Monday.
The boy told his mother that Chung was driving fast and that he was “scared of his father’s behavior,” the report said.
The mother waited outside her Milton home in the rain until Chung arrived. When she went to get her son, the report said, Chung “turned to her and pushed her causing her to drop her phone and fall back on to the paved sidewalk striking her buttocks, lower back area, and her back and neck area.”
When she got up to confront Chung, the report said, he slapped her in the face.
She slapped Chung in retaliation, and he slapped her again in the face before picking her phone off the ground and eventually throwing it against the house, causing the screen to shatter, the report said.
Chung drove off. He was later arrested at his home in Norton.
The police report said the mother told authorities that Chung had become enraged at their son and “he was kicked out of the house.”
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After Chung pulled into the mother’s driveway, the report said, Chung opened the rear driver’s side door to hug his son. As he did, the mother heard Chung say, “Your mom’s a piece of [expletive].”
Responding medics and police couldn’t find any signs of swelling to the victim’s face or back, according to the report. She told police she was in pain, and at one point had to stop speaking with officers “due to the pain she was experiencing.”
“Mr. Chung appeared to be the initial aggressor,” the report concluded.
Their son, who witnessed the altercation, cried several times as his mother spoke to police.
In court Tuesday, Chung’s attorney, Sandy Pesiridis, rejected the accuser’s account of events and asserted that she had been the aggressor.
”Mr. Chung is an upstanding member of the community, wonderful father, and he looks forward to be able to set this straight in respect to what actually occurred,” Pesiridis said. “He is the victim… in this matter.”
The woman, representing herself, asked a judge to issue a civil restraining order against Chung. The judge issued the order, which converts into a criminal offense if any of the terms are found to have been violated.
“There is something very wrong here,” the woman said as she broke down in the courtroom. “My son lives in fear of his father.”
Pesiridis aggressively questioned the woman during the hearing, asking about her injuries and communication with Chung before the altercation.
When asked by Pesiridis if she was “in imminent fear” of Chung, she responded, “Always.”
A woman who identified herself as Chung’s fiancee told a much different story when she testified Tuesday, agreeing with Pesiridis that the alleged victim had sparked the incident.
The fiancee said she had been in the vehicle as Chung drove his son home.
She said the mother had been waiting on the front steps when Chung arrived, pushing him out of the way to get to their son as he got out of the vehicle.
Chung immediately turned and returned to the driver’s seat, the fiancee said, but the mother chased him, attempting to close the vehicle’s door on Chung’s leg and punching him in the face three times.
Their son was in the back seat when the altercation occurred, Chung’s fiancee said. She said Chung did not strike the mother in the face.
Chung retired in March after opting out of the 2020-21 season due to the coronavirus pandemic. He was drafted by the Patriots in 2009 out of Oregon, and spent 10 of his 11 seasons in the NFL in New England. He was part of three Super Bowl-winning teams, and was a crucial part of the defensive effort in the Patriots’ win over the Seahawks in 2015.
An e-mail to a spokesperson for the sports agency that represents him wasn’t immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.
In his one-year hiatus from the game before his retirement, Chung cofounded a commercial real estate company in the area.
Chung was indicted in August 2019 for possession of a controlled drug, a charge that stemmed from a visit earlier that summer by police to a home Chung owned in New Hampshire.
In January 2020, New Hampshire prosecutors agreed to drop the cocaine charge as long as Chung stayed out of trouble for two years, submitted to drug screening, and performed 40 hours of community service.
“There are several factors which led the State to agree to this resolution,” Belknap County Attorney Andrew B. Livernois said in a statement in January 2020. “First, Mr. Chung has no prior criminal record nor any prior involvement with the criminal justice system. Second, Mr. Chung was fully cooperative with the Meredith Police Department on the evening of the incident involved. Third, the amount of the drugs which were allegedly in Mr. Chung’s possession and/or control was small. Fourth, Mr. Chung has provided proof to the State that he has voluntarily undergone a full substance abuse evaluation, and that said evaluation indicated that Mr. Chung does not need any substance abuse treatment.”
Chung had been active on Twitter over the weekend and into Monday afternoon.
He tweeted at one point Sunday, “Hate is a strong word. But there are some people that deserve it. Use it wisely.” Then on Monday shortly before 4 p.m. he tweeted, “Best day of my life.”
Chung didn’t speak to reporters as he left the courthouse Tuesday, quietly climbing into a white GMC truck that drove away.
This is a developing story and will be updated when new information becomes available.
Katie McInerney and Travis Andersen of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Material from previous Globe reporting was used in this story.
John R. Ellement can be reached at john.ellement@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @JREbosglobe. Andrew Brinker can be reached at andrew.brinker@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @andrewnbrinker.
