From The Tribune staff reports
NASHVILLE — Former University of Alabama quarterback and Trussville native Jay Barker was arrested early Saturday morning in Nashville and charged with felony aggravated assault.
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Nashville-based newspaper The Tenneseean broke the news.
The 49-year-old radio personality — full name Harry Jerome Barker — is currently being held in the Davidson County Jail on a $10,000 bond, with one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is currently listed on the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office as being detained on a 12-hour hold for domestic violence.
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Barker, a 1990 graduate of Hewitt-Trussville High School, led Alabama to the 1992 national collegiate football championship, including a Sugar Bowl win against top-ranked Miami in the Jan. 1, 1993. He is the school’s all-time winningest quarterback and was for years a part of the top-ranked morning drive time sports talk radio show in the Birmingham market.
In 2011, Barker, along with former HTHS coach Jack Wood and former Auburn quarterback Brandon Cox, were the inaugural class inducted into the Hewitt-Trussville Hall of Fame by the Trussville City Schools Education Foundation. To date, it is the only class inducted.
Barker is married to country music star Sara Evans.
