Sanchez now facing felony charge for altercation

Former NFL backmost Mark Sanchez is facing a felony artillery complaint implicit an altercation betwixt the erstwhile NFL backmost and a 69-year-old motortruck operator aboriginal Saturday successful Indianapolis.

Marion County authoritative Ryan Mears announced the upgraded complaint Monday morning, saying Sanchez faces a Level 5 felony complaint of artillery "involving superior bodily injury." Punishment tin scope from 1 to six years successful prison, according to Mears.

Mears added that prosecutors are inactive investigating the incidental and that Sanchez, 38, could look further charges.

On Sunday, Sanchez was charged with artillery with injury, nationalist intoxication and unlawful introduction of a conveyance -- each misdemeanors. An archetypal proceeding was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. ET Tuesday.

According to an affidavit for probable origin based connected edifice video footage of the altercation aboriginal Saturday and statements to police, Sanchez allegedly accosted the operator of a container motortruck that backed into a hotel's loading dock.

According to the affidavit, the confrontation escalated to the constituent wherever the motortruck operator believed helium was successful danger, sprayed Sanchez successful the look with capsicum spray and, with Sanchez inactive advancing toward him, said helium thought "this feline is trying to termination me."

The motortruck operator past pulled his weapon and, with Sanchez inactive coming astatine him, said helium struck Sanchez "two oregon 3 times," according to the affidavit. The motortruck operator said helium was thrown against a dumpster and onto the crushed and believed helium was successful a "life-or-death situation." The driver, according to the affidavit, past said "a look of shock" came to Sanchez's look and Sanchez "took off."

Sanchez was arrested by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department astatine a infirmary Saturday.

The affidavit said Sanchez suffered respective stab wounds to his close torso country portion the operator had a laceration connected his near feature and was taken to a antithetic infirmary than Sanchez for treatment.

Sanchez told a constabulary serviceman that "all helium could retrieve was grabbing for a window," adding that helium did not cognize who stabbed him oregon wherever it happened, according to the affidavit.

Police got a warrant to get Sanchez's telephone and apparel from the hospital, the papers said.

Sanchez, an expert for Fox Sports, was successful Indianapolis arsenic portion of the broadcast unit for the network's sum of Sunday's crippled betwixt the Las Vegas Raiders and Indianapolis Colts astatine Lucas Oil Stadium. Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Chris Myers acknowledged Sanchez's lack connected Sunday earlier introducing Sanchez's replacement, Brady Quinn. Myers said helium wanted to nonstop thoughts and prayers to Sanchez and everyone progressive successful the incident.

Sanchez played 8 seasons successful the NFL aft being selected 5th by the New York Jets successful the 2009 draught retired of USC. He helped the Jets beforehand to back-to-back AFC Championship Games successful his archetypal 2 seasons.

He besides played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys and Washington, the squad helium past appeared successful a regular-season crippled for successful 2018.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.