{"id":495433,"date":"2026-03-09T22:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/495433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:53:32","slug":"penn-state-mens-hockeys-gavin-mckenna-waives-preliminary-hearing-for-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/495433\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Men&#8217;s Hockey&#8217;s Gavin McKenna Waives Preliminary Hearing For Assault Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State men\u2019s hockey\u2019s Gavin McKenna waived the preliminary hearing for his assault case after a <a href=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\/2026\/02\/04\/gavin-mckenna-facing-felony-charges-over-january-31-incident\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\/2026\/02\/04\/gavin-mckenna-facing-felony-charges-over-january-31-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">January 31 incident<\/a> in downtown State College, according to court documents. <\/p>\n<p>McKenna was originally set to appear before a Centre County magisterial court on Wednesday, March 11. Penn State is set to play Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals on the same day at 7 p.m. at Pegula Ice Arena. He is now set to appear at a formal arraignment in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas on April 8. <\/p>\n<p>State College police originally charged McKenna with felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor simple assault, and two summary offenses for disorderly conduct and harassment when he struck a 21-year-old and caused facial injuries in January. McKenna\u2019s felony charge was dropped after police and the District Attorney\u2019s office reviewed footage of the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Please choose an option below.<\/p>\n<p>\tSign up for our e-mail newsletter: <\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_5581-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"avatar avatar-full photo\" alt=\"\" scheme=\"https\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Oscar is a second-year broadcast journalism student from Los Angeles. In his downtime, he can be found crying while watching Todd Gurley highlights or reposting movie edits on TikTok. He mostly writes about Penn State football. Email him at <a href=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"1679657577645679786177647265627762733875797b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or message him on Instagram @_oscarorellana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State men\u2019s hockey\u2019s Gavin McKenna waived the preliminary hearing for his assault case after a January 31&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[58643,17556,58644,14910,54554,766,58645,54385,54386,58646,58647,54417,5,58648,58649,58650,40,2146,2147,58651,2150,17278],"class_list":{"0":"post-495433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-centre-country-magisterial-court","9":"tag-court","10":"tag-doggies","11":"tag-downtown","12":"tag-downtown-state-college","13":"tag-gavin-mckenna","14":"tag-gavin-mckenna-arrested","15":"tag-gavin-mckenna-assault","16":"tag-gavin-mckenna-charges","17":"tag-gavin-mckenna-court","18":"tag-gavin-mckenna-court-dates","19":"tag-gavin-mckenna-incident","20":"tag-hockey","21":"tag-mckenna-arraignment","22":"tag-mckenna-court","23":"tag-mckenna-incident","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-onward-state","26":"tag-penn-state","27":"tag-pennsylvania-court-of-common-please","28":"tag-psu","29":"tag-state-college"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116201679745079473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}