Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was seen breaking down in tears in newly-released bodycam footage from his December 2025 arrest.
In a video from Moore’s detainment obtained by TMZ on Friday, March 27, Moore, 40, starts to wipe away tears from his eyes the moment he exits his vehicle on a snowy day in Michigan. (Moore was sitting in a black SUV when police initially approached him in the lot.)
“I can’t get handcuffed,” Moore told the police, who announced they were there to “detain” him. “I’ve got an awful shoulder and it hurts so bad.”
The officers decided to use two sets of handcuffs to help alleviate the pain Moore claimed to have as he continued to cry.
Once in the back of the police car, Moore explained, “I just got fired,” referring to the University of Michigan dismissing him on December 10, 2025, after he was accused of having an “inappropriate relationship” with a football staff member.
“They wanted to fire me anyways,” he claimed. “It’s part of life, I guess,” Moore told the officer as he sniffled from the back seat.
The former coach mumbled something about a therapist before the cop reassured Moore that they were there to “help.”
“I don’t want to hurt myself, man. I’ve got a beautiful family, kids,” Moore replied, seemingly referring to allegations that he threatened the football staffer and threatened to harm himself shortly before he was arrested.
Moore shares daughters Shiloh, Soleo and Sadie, born in 2019, 2022 and 2025, respectively with wife Kelli, whom he wed in 2015.
Elsewhere in the video, a police officer went inside Moore’s vehicle after getting permission to get his phone to call his wife. Moore also informed the officers that there was a pair of scissors in his car so they wouldn’t be caught off guard during the search.
“From the beginning, this case was built on a false narrative,” Moore’s attorney Ellen K. Michaels told Luxury Handbag Shopping in a statement on Friday. “The 911 call that drove the initial response was filled with false claims, and those claims shaped what followed. Once we brought all the facts to light, the charges were dismissed.”
Michaels added, “The body camera shows only an initial response based on incomplete information. We challenged the narrative, litigated the facts, and exposed the [truth].”
The body cam footage was released three months after Moore was fired as the head coach at the University of Michigan after he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a staffer.
After he was fired, Moore allegedly broke into the staff member’s apartment and threatened to harm her and himself. He was then arrested in December 2025 and charged with felony home invasion, misdemeanor stalking and misdemeanor breaking and entering.
He was released on $25,000 bond and ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor. Moore was also forbidden from contacting the staff member.
Earlier this month, Moore accepted a plea deal. He pleaded no contest on March 6 to two new misdemeanor charges of malicious use of a telecommunications device in context of a domestic relationship and trespassing.
The charges of felony home invasion, misdemeanor stalking and misdemeanor breaking and entering were subsequently dropped.
“Today’s no-contest plea in the criminal trespassing case involving disgraced former University of Michigan head football coach Sheronne Moore [sic] represents a critical moment of acknowledgment and accountability following a frightening and deeply disturbing incident,” lawyers for Moore’s alleged victim Paige Shiver said in a statement earlier this month. “Not surprisingly, Sheronne Moore’s [sic] no-contest plea was entered a mere days following press reports alleging his failure to report sexual assault allegations against former Michigan assistant coach LaTroy Lewis.”
A sentencing for Moore is scheduled for April 14 and a separate investigation by a Chicago law firm into the University of Michigan athletic department is still ongoing.
