The beating of its high school football coach has prompted the superintendent of Warren County schools to seek the state’s assistance in obtaining a “complete investigation” of the Friday attack.

Warren County Superintendent Dr. Jean Carey said the school system has asked the Georgia attorney general’s office to request a GBI investigation into the after-game fight that seriously injured head football coach David Daniels. No arrests have been made.

Carey said Daniels was attacked after Friday night’s 21-2 victory in Hancock County.

Carey, who witnessed the incident, said Warren County players were locked out of the visiting locker room after the Sparta school’s homecoming game.

A group of more than 30 Hancock players attacked Warren players, said Carey.

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Daniels tried to intervene and was “smashed in the face with a helmet,” said Carey.

Daniels was hospitalized with head injuries and has undergone major reconstructive surgery to his face, including crushed bones above and below his eye.

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