FOLLOW-UP STORY – Tennessee Vols football linebacker Aaron Beasley was issued an animal cruelty citation yesterday instead of being taken into custody.

Beasley has been suspended from all team activities by the University of Tennessee amid the animal abuse allegation.

Beasley reportedly hit, kicked, and locked another student’s six-month-old kitten in a toilet bowl. The animal was later taken to a veterinarian emergency room for brain damage and internal bleeding.