Critical Condition: Dodgers Fans Unleash ‘Savage Beating’ on Rival Fan
- Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:04pm by
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A savage beating by two men outside Dodgers Stadium has left a San Francisco Giants fan hospitalized and police urging any witnesses to step forward to help identify the attackers.
The beating after Thursday’s season opener between the Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers left the victim in critical but stable condition.
Police late Friday released composite sketches of the two suspects, who were wearing Dodgers clothing. Investigators were also checking to see if any security camera captured the attack, but Detective Larry Burcher said so far they’d found “nothing of great value.”
“We’re very confident there were witnesses, it happened immediately following the game when everybody was coming out,” Burcher said.
Police said the two men began taunting three men in Giants gear with expletives as thousands of baseball fans left the stadium after Thursday night’s 2-1 Dodger victory, Detective T.J. Moore said.
The Giants fans tried to distance themselves from their assailants, and two made it away from them, but one was struck with fists on the back of the head and as he fell, his head hit the ground in Parking Lot 2 on the third base side of the ballpark, Moore said.
Both attackers then kicked the victim, who suffered a head injury, and ran, Moore said. The suspects fled in a four-door sedan driven by a woman with a male child passenger in the vehicle, Moore said.
When the victim’s friends turned around to look for him, they saw him on the ground and made their way back to him.
Police paramedics on bicycles were the first to arrive to help the victim. An ambulance was called and the victim was taken to a nearby hospital, Moore said.
The victim‘s name wasn’t released, but KGO radio in San Francisco and the Santa Cruz Sentinel identified him as Bryan Stow of Santa Cruz. His brother-in-law, David Collins, told KGO that Stow has severe head injuries.
“It’s sad,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said before Friday’s game against the Dodgers. “It‘s a shame somebody’s in critical condition because of a ball game. When they’re out fighting in the parking lot, we’ve lost sight of what this is all about. Sounds like the guy got blindsided, too.”
The Dodgers said they were co-operating with investigators and wished the victim a speedy recovery.
“It is extremely unfortunate that this incident took place on what was otherwise a great day at Dodger Stadium for tens of thousands of fans,” the team said in a statement. “We’re committed to having the most fan and family friendly environment in baseball and will continue to make that a top priority.”
The stadium has been plagued by opening day violence in the past.
In April 2009, a man stabbed his friend in the stadium parking lot after the home opener, in which the Dodgers. Arthur Alvarez said he acted in self defense and was acquitted by a jury.
The West Coast rivalry began on April 18, 1958, the first game played in California after both teams had moved from New York. The Dodgers beat the Giants 6-5 in a game played before nearly 79,000 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
“I was disappointed,” new Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said about the Thursday attack. “You don’t want to see that. Everyone likes rivalries, but to me that’s crossing the line.”
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Comments (108)
Jezcruzen
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:46pmThese two fine Aztec young men are being unfairly judged by all you gringos and gringas. It was that Giants fan’s fault. How dare he come to an away game to watch his favorite baseball team play and having the audacity (thats a Kenyan word… “audacity”) to wear Giants gear! Now the two little hispanic greaseballs will have to hide until the next game. How unfair is that? :-)
Report Post »tom
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:45pmThe problem is sports has become a religion.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:44pmWell I think we can deduct from the lack of descriptions of the perps that the attackers were blacks or Mexicans……can’t we? If they were white…they would have said so. The news is raaaaacist.
Report Post »JROCCOD
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:41pmOver a baseball game…..Wow!!!!
Report Post »lizaz
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:39pmRemind me not to watch or support the LA dodgers…..too bad……..
Report Post »mbean
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:34pmYou can take the team out of Brooklyn, but you can’t take Brooklyn out of the team.
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:32pmThere must be some bad blood between SanFRANCISCO AND L.A.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:21pmCatch these people and send them to the Middle East. They will fit in nicely.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:19pmgeez.. that disgusting
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:15pmQuick…get Holder….it is a hate crime!
Report Post »John-Mary
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:10pmA classey move for the Dodger organization would be to forfeit the next game that they win over the Giants. Send a message to the fans.
Report Post »chipformica
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:05pmBoy they really want to catch these guys. A four door sedan. No color? No Brand? No general description of the punks? Message here – don’t go to road games. And by the way, SF fans were the beginning of this assault the visitors crap.
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:01pmthat area is 60% illegal alien gangs…. and if that is the life style they want to live, let them kill each other, just keep it there, don’t come to my home and pull that ****, it won’t go down here .
Report Post »MJR
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:56pmI stopped going to Dodger games unless I go with several friends, I always sit behind home plate and never the bleachers, I have seen stupid hispanic gang bangers always fighting!
Report Post »god
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:12pma classy move would be to tear down the dump that is dodger stadium.
Report Post »a classy move would be mlb to emliminate the dodger franchise.
RingADingDing
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:50pmI don’t understand why grown men like sports anyway. They’re so weak minded. They actually “idolize” these players. You’re just watching a bunch of animals jump up and down all over a field.
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:48pmI take it by your “name”, that your elevator does’nt go all the way to the top……
Report Post »B4B
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:44pmWhat’s this… a soccer game?
Was it …Islam v Christianity day?
What’s next… a beheading?
The have to have cameras someplace that caught an image of at least the vehicle. Hopefully they can track these idiots down.
Report Post »NE12012
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:34pmOoops….somebody didn’t get the “Diversity is Wonderful” memo…
Report Post »avi8tor
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:24pmVery disapointing indeed, more uncalled for violence that has seemed to plague our country at this time… and Dodgers stadium too aparently…
Report Post »god
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:20pmthe media has done a great job covering up what dodger games are all about.
on tv, you see the celebs behind home plate.
what you dont see is, the rest of the stands are filled with mexican gang members.
there are numerous fights and arrests at every game.
the dodgers have encouraged it. vin scully will never mention it either.
go to a dodger a game at you own risk. its probably safer in libya.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:46pmThe local word on the street agrees with this.
Report Post »Sounds like the Los Angeles Dodgers fan base is a pretty tough lot.
111gecko
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:58pmYou are exactly correct……anyone who tries to defend it has never been to the stadium….it is truly a shame; we used to go to a ton of games, but is seriously scary…..Raider games are like Disneyworld compared to that place.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:18pmI don’t watch other people live their lives… I do my own things.
Report Post »Logic77
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:41pmExactly, I totally agree.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:07pmWe are the same way.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:15pmThere is no rivalry more intense than the Red Sox and the Yankees , being from Boston we don’t pull that crap EVER . It’s all in good fun . Something tells me these assailants will be cowards and scream self defense . GOD knows .
Report Post »Ellbee
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:25pmNope. No matter how much we “hate-a you face” and talk crap, we get along ok.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:14pm“The beating after Thursday’s season opener between the Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers left the victim in critical but stable condition.”
The Dodgers need to move back to Brooklyn!
Report Post »OH, I Get It!
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:50pm…and the dirtbag criminals need to move back South.
Report Post »111gecko
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:13pmDoes anyone venture to take a guess of what they look like…..I would never want to be accused of racial profiling….just sayin’…..
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:21pmLook a few posts up
Report Post »AMERICAN FOREVER FOREVER AMERICAN
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:50pmBeing from California I can tell you without any hesitation. But we all know without having to even look. The same as you would expect from a Raiders event. Everyone that I know that is into baseball wouldn’t even think of going to a Dodgers game because of who is there. We also wouldn’t think of crossing the boarder.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:11pmInsane! Baseball isn’t about this!
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:08pmWhere’s the civility in Pasadena?
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:10pmDodger Stadium is one of the safest, most family-friendly ballparks in the country?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:14pmWhere is civility in general going anymore?
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:25pmYes Redneck … I have been going to Dodger Stadium for many years. The behavior in this Stadium is very much like the behavior in the City of LA. I saw a man get excited by a play … so he dipped his towel in his beer and started swinging it around and around … He soaked all the people sitting next to him.
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:29pmTerrorist on a dry run at Camp Pendleton were asking for directions to “Glendale”, what a coincidence.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:40pmThe suspects fled in a four-door sedan driven by a woman with a male child passenger in the vehicle
Report Post »————
Lemme guess
2 drug dispensing + infused bangers ( surenos/ mechas/ ms-13) , 20-30yr old, with no jobs, illegal mexicans, one of which has bred an anchor-baby with a female banger ( who maybe 18-29 yr old) .
All 3 upstanding citizens are covered with ink
ISeeDanger.com
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:42pmStupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid….
Report Post »Imagine, going home and telling your kids you’re going to jail for 15 years.
All because you wanted to be the “tough guy”.
Turn the other cheek, be a man and walk away.
FREEDOM, is YOUR choice. Don’t lose it.
http://www.ISeeDanger.com
edcoil
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:42pmIt is the wonderful mexican culture moving north.
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:48pmi went to a baseball game and a hate crime broke out
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:56pmHere’s the composites, just about what I expected
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8049193
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:00pmIf they don’t straighten up, Obama will issue an Executive Order to ban Dodger/Giants baseball!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:34pm“but to me that’s crossing the line” duh, idiot.
Report Post »LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:38pmI don’t want to hear any more garbage about how bad Phillies fans are compared to these neanderthals. We HATE Mets fans but we don’t go stalking them outside the stadium and beating the crap out of them.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:39pmPopcorn , heckling and snowballs at Santa Clause and the Dallas Cowboys . I don’t remember anyone hurt here in Philly though.
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:39pmAnd Islam is a religion of peace.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:49pmIt’s Kalifornia. You know land of peaceful and tolerant liberals.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:56pmGone off the cliff, no morals, no values, no sanctity for human life, what have we come to as a society?
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:21pm“Everyone likes rivalries, but to me that’s crossing the line.” You think?!!!? I pray Mr Stow will make a full recovery. And to the thugs, nice example for the child in the car.
Report Post »desertkid
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:28pmA couple years ago they open the new dodger spring training facility in Glendale Az. and went to one game and will never go again. Spring training is something to look forward to here in Phoenix. I go to quite a few games and take in the different ball parks. But dodger stadium in Glendale? Forget about it won‘t go you don’t know who is packing heat. There were packs of young people hanging out and making noise and not watching the game. Very uncomfortable and we left in the fourth inning.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:44pmYeah, great reporting Blaze. “LAPD released a sketch but we didn’t feel like putting it in our news story.”
If anyone wants to see what these illegal scum look like:
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8049193
Report Post »Edward
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:11pmGood job on the friends leaving this guy at the mercy of the attackers. With friends like these who needs enemies.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:22pmHow come the composites aren’t posted? It may help to get that info out.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:48pmMy cousin’s son was with a group of his friends walking back from a football game in the greater Chicago area when a fight broke out in a bar they were passing and spilled out into the street. One of the combatants sucker punched my family member and nearly killed him. He was in the hospital for more than a month and quite truthfully, will never be quite the same. Oh, and after an extensive investigation, the police did get the perp, who is looking at something like ten to fifteen years in the pen.
So, this is far more common than one would like to admit. And the perp was only 22, so he’ll be spending a major portion of his young adulthood with the real tough guys.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:09pmObviously, California is the land of civil discourse…..
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:36pmRedneck,
Almost nothing in California is safe or family freindly, especially in Sacto. I know. I live in California.
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:40pmHere’s some civility right here. Californika can rot. They earned their lot in life. Want to live? Leave there ASAP because when it falls apart it’s going to be a zombie apocalypse just like new Jersey where i live.
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:43amCivility? In CA?
Not that I know of.
Report Post »hud
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:27amWhere were the “rent a cops” that some accused of brutality at the soccar match. Big suit coming
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:26amAs a Yankee fan, I can understand the anger of losing to a rival team, such as the Boston Red Sux, but you always have to have thick skin because there are people that take it a little too far!
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