Derrick Fenner Shot After Dispute

Derrick Fenner, former University of North Carolina football star, was released from the hospital Sunday after undergoing treatment for a gunshot wound he suffered in an incident near a Washington nightclub.

Fenner, who was shot in the chest, was not seriously wounded.

Police said Fenner had become involved in a dispute with several men inside the club, and they went outside to the parking lot where a shot was fired.

The men involved in the altercation fled. No suspect has been arrested, police said.

Fenner set an Atlantic Coast Conference record as a sophomore at North Carolina when he rushed for 329 yards against the University of Virginia. But his potential was never realized as he was charged with first-degree murder in a drug-related homicide.

That charge was ultimately dropped, but Fenner is still on probation as a result of a 1987 incident in which he was stopped at a traffic light and a police officer found 25 glass vials with traces of cocaine in his jacket.