Georgia star and Heisman Trophy candidate Todd Gurley was falsely accused of assault in a downtown Athens bar early Sunday morning, according to OnlineAthens.com.

According to Athens-Clarke County Police, the accuser was a 20-year-old Georgia student who was said to have called police from his home around 3:18 a.m. to report that Gurley had punched him more than an hour earlier at the Bourbon Street Bar & Grill on Broad Street. According to media reports, he accused Gurley of attacking him after taking a photo of himself with the Bulldog star in the background.

According to the Banner-Herald, police reviewed the surveillance footage from the bar, but that a white male punched the accuser, not Gurley. Georgia’s leading rusher agreed to be interviewed by authorities after he was accused, according to police.

Gurley told police that he had noticed the student trying to take pictures with his cell phone as Gurley was in the background with friends from his hometown. Gurley said he did not see the student get punched, however. According to media reports, Gurley told a detective that the student had lost his hat, and that he reached down to pick it up for him when the student approached him and directed a racial slur at Gurley.

According to police, video footage dictates that it was about then that the student was punched. The accuser was kicked out of the bar after the altercation. While being interviewed in his apartment, police said the student was informed that the video footage did not corroborate his story. The student conceded he’d been drinking that night but held that he was not drunk.

According to the Banner-Herald, the police report said the accuser wished not to pursue the allegation. The detective overseeing the investigation released a statement clearing Gurley.

“In consideration of all the information, to include statements and video recordings from the incident location, Todd Gurley’s involvement in this report is unfounded,” the detective said. “Based also on the information … I was able to see clearly that Todd Gurley had no involvement in this case other than trying to give an individual his hat back.”