Two days after he was fired as head coach on the College of Michigan, Sherrone Moore was charged Friday in reference to the house invasion and stalking of a workers member with whom he allegedly had an “intimate relationship.”
Moore, 39, is charged with third-degree felony residence invasion, in addition to misdemeanor counts of stalking and of breaking and coming into.
The college fired Moore on Wednesday. In an announcement, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel mentioned Moore had been “terminated with cause, effective immediately,” including “this conduct constitutes a clear violation of University policy, and U-M maintains zero tolerance for such behavior.”
Hours after the firing, Moore was booked within the Washtenaw County Jail after Pittsfield Township police responded to the 3000 block of Ann Arbor Saline Street to an alleged assault.
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Throughout Moore’s arraignment on Friday, Washtenaw County First Assistant Prosecutor Kati Rezmierski mentioned Moore had an “intimate relationship” with the sufferer for a “number of years,” and that the sufferer ended the connection on Monday. Prosecutors declare Moore made quite a few telephone calls and despatched messages to the sufferer from that point interval ahead, however she didn’t reply to them. The sufferer then went to the college and cooperated with an investigation.
After being fired by the college on Wednesday, prosecutors say Moore went to the sufferer’s house, barged his approach in, proceeded to a kitchen drawer, and grabbed a number of butter knives and a pair of kitchen scissors.
Moore then threatened his personal life, saying, ‘I’m going to kill myself. I’m going to make you watch. My blood is in your fingers. You ruined my life,’ in accordance with prosecutors. Moore made a sequence of intimidating statements, prosecutors allege, however say there is no such thing as a proof to recommend that he instantly threatened the sufferer with the knives or scissors.
The sufferer then known as her lawyer and the police, and Moore left her residence.
“The totality of the behaviour is highly threatening and highly intimidating. She was terrorized,” Rezmierski mentioned.
Moore was launched on a $25,000 bond and ordered to not have any contact with the sufferer. He should additionally proceed to endure psychological well being remedy. As a part of his bond situations, Moore should put on a GPS tether, can not go away Michigan with out the courtroom’s permission and can’t possess any weapons or eat medicine or alcohol.
Moore’s subsequent courtroom look is on Jan. 22, 2026.
Moore served as head coach for the previous two seasons, main the No. 18 Wolverines to a mixed 16-8 document and a victory within the ReliaQuest Bowl final yr.
Within the meantime, the college has appointed Baltimore native Biff Poggi because the interim coach. Poggi beforehand served as affiliate coach at Michigan from 2021 to 2022 earlier than happening to develop into head coach at Charlotte till November 2024. He returned to the Michigan workers within the 2025 season.
Michigan is now gearing up for the Citrus Bowl towards No. 13 Texas on New 12 months’s Eve.
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