Former NFL head coach Rex Ryan turned himself in to Nashville police on Wednesday morning, Nov. 11. He faces six misdemeanor charges accusing him of hitting two pedestrians with his pickup truck downtown and driving away.

Ryan, 63, was booked on six outstanding warrants, and a judicial commissioner set his bond at $6,000, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's release. Ryan is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.

Ryan was head coach of the New York Jets from 2009 to 2014, reaching two AFC Championship Games, and of the Buffalo Bills in 2015 and 2016. He now works as an NFL analyst for ESPN. "We are aware and are in touch with Rex," ESPN said in a statement Wednesday.

What police say happened

A wet downtown street lined with neon bar signs and brick buildings, with a metal barricade along the sidewalk
Lower Broadway in Nashville, looking east, in August 2017.An Errant Knight / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

It happened shortly before midnight on Thursday, Nov. 5. The corner was Fourth Avenue and Broadway, on the stretch of Lower Broadway lined with honky-tonk bars.

According to police, two pedestrians were crossing Broadway from Fourth Avenue with a walk signal when a pickup truck turned right from Fourth Avenue. The truck ran over both people's feet and struck one person's leg. Both injuries were minor, police said.

The pedestrians told police the truck kept going but stopped at a red light at Broadway and Representative John Lewis Way. They waved the driver down, and police say the driver, whom they identify as Ryan, got out to argue with them, climbed back into the truck and drove off.

The pedestrians photographed the truck's license plate and the driver, and police said the plate is registered to Ryan.

His booking came six days later. The release does not say when the warrants were issued.

The six charges

A coach in a black cap, sunglasses and a Jets sweater vest talks on the sideline in front of stadium seats
Rex Ryan on the sideline as New York Jets head coach in October 2011.Marianne O'Leary / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0

Ryan is charged with two counts each of three offenses:

ChargeCounts
Leaving the scene of an accident2
Failure to give information or render aid2
Failure to obey a traffic control signal2

Tennessee's driver license manual says "you must not leave the scene of any type of crash." It also lists leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, along with failing to stop and render aid, among the offenses that can lead the state to suspend or revoke a license.

The police release did not list a court date or name an attorney for Ryan.