Derrick Fenner, former North Carolina football star...
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Derrick Fenner, former North Carolina football star once accused of murder and later convicted of cocaine possession, faces a new charge for allegedly threatening a motel lounge manager in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Fenner, 21, who is attending summer school at North Carolina, was arrested Sunday after Christopher Clark had accused Fenner of threatening him in a hotel bar Saturday.
In June 1987, the star running back left summer school at the Chapel Hill campus and returned to his hometown, Hyattsville, Md., to face murder charges in connection with the drug-related shooting death of a 19-year-old Hyattsville man May 23, 1987.
Fenner was charged with first-degree murder in the case and spent six weeks in jail. Prosecutors abruptly dropped the charge in November 1987, however, after finding that Fenner--as he had contended--was not at the scene of the shooting.
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