Former Texas basketball coach Chris Beard’s Austin house listed

AUSTIN, Texas — It seems that the Austin dwelling owned by former College of Texas at Austin basketball coach Chris Beard is up on the market.

The asking worth for the Tarrytown home: $4.95 million.

The tackle on the itemizing matches the tackle in a letter UT despatched to Beard dated Jan. 5, 2023, and which was made accessible to the media. That letter detailed his termination.

Inbuilt 2021, the home is 4,088 sq. ft and has 4 bedrooms and 5 bogs, in keeping with the itemizing.

Texas fired Beard on Jan. 5. He faces a felony home household violence cost stemming from a Dec. 12, 2022, incident involving his fiancée.

Beard had 5 years left on a seven-year assured contract that features a provision he may very well be fired for trigger if he was charged with a felony. The cost of assault by strangulation/suffocation household violence carries a attainable jail sentence of two to 10 years if convicted; the lady advised police he strangled and bit her, however later denied Beard choked her.

Beard had been suspended with out pay since he was arrested, and college officers have mentioned there’s an ongoing inside investigation. 

Police responded to an emergency name at Beard’s home after midnight and arrested him after Beard’s fiancée, Randi Trew, advised officers he choked her from behind, bit her and hit her when the 2 obtained in an argument. Beard’s legal professional has mentioned the coach is harmless.

Trew issued a public assertion on Dec. 23 by which she denied telling police Beard choked her. She additionally mentioned she by no means meant for him to be arrested or prosecuted.

“Chris didn’t strangle me, and I advised that to legislation enforcement that night,” Trew mentioned in her assertion. “Chris has acknowledged that he was performing in self-defense, and I don’t refute that. I don’t imagine Chris was attempting to deliberately hurt me in any means.” 

The Related Press contributed to this report.