According to a police report, Hamlin and his girlfriend were leaving Larry's Nightclub in the Pioneer Square section of Seattle at about 2 a.m. Monday, several hours after the Seahawks defeated the Houston Texans on Sunday night.

The girlfriend told officers that Hamlin placed his hand on another man's back and said, \"Excuse me.\" The man told Hamlin to stop pushing, and the two men began shoving each other.

According to the report, Hamlin then punched the man in the face; Herring said Hamlin has a fractured right hand. Another man struck Hamlin with his forearm, knocking him down, before the two men began fighting with other men nearby. Other witnesses told police one of the men hit Hamlin twice in the torso with some sort of magnetic street sign.

Witnesses provided the names of two men to police but they were not in custody, police spokeswoman Debra Brown said Monday.
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The club's owner, Larry Culp, said his security guards kept Hamlin separated from the two men outside for about 15 minutes as the bar was emptying at closing time. Culp said the guards tried to restrain Hamlin \"five, six or eight times. The other guy started to back down, and as soon as the head of my security team turned his head, [Hamlin] went after him.\"

\"He had plenty of chances to walk away from this incident,\" Culp said, adding Hamlin \"went out of his way\" to provoke a fight.

Culp released a security videotape showing Hamlin breaking free from club security guards after the initial altercation subsided.

Police found Hamlin lying in an intersection outside the club a few blocks north of Qwest Field, surrounded by a crowd of people.

Seattle police are also looking into a report that a man found shot to death was one of the men involved in the fight.

A jogger found the body of Terrell Milam, 31, near a city park some three hours after the 2 a.m. brawl at the nightclub, more than five miles away. Tramaine Isabell, who says he is Milam's brother, said he recognized Milam from the security video of the fight.