Former New Orleans Saints DE Grant gets probation, fine in fatal Ga. nightclub fight

Ex-Saint Grant gets probation in Ga. club fight

BLAKELY, Ga. — Former New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter in a Georgia nightclub fight that killed a pregnant woman has pleaded no contest to a lesser charge and was sentenced to probation.

Assistant District Attorney Ron Smith says Grant was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay $20,000 restitution to the Early County Sheriff’s Office last week for his role in the February, 2008 fight. He pleaded no contest to affray, which means fighting.

The 31-year-old Grant, who is from Colquitt, Ga., was stabbed in the neck during the fight in nearby Blakely that resulted in the death of 23-year-old Korynda Reed.

Smith says Grant’s longtime friend, Laquient Macklin, and Grant’s cousin, Marshae Stromer, pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and affray and paid $1,000 fine and were put on two years probation.