Going to a high school baseball game to watch your son play used to be a fun experience. These days, however, it might be best to keep your mouth shut and your head on a swivel.
Case in point: A fan recently suffered a severe head injury after a fight broke out near the Eastmoor Academy High School baseball field in Columbus, Ohio.
According to WCMH News, a criminal complaint affidavit reveals that police recently responded to multiple reports of a fight in progress in a parking lot near the Eastmoor baseball field. When officers arrived about 7:15 p.m. and spoke to witnesses, everyone involved in a fight had left the scene.
That didn’t mean it was over, though. Far from it.
The situation then escalated quickly
Approximately half an hour later, police responded to another report of an assault. After being taken to the hospital, one of the men involved in the fight told police that he had been assaulted at the high school. It was later discovered that he had sustained an 8mm brain bleed from a blow to the head.
Witnesses told police that the victim had been involved in a verbal altercation with the man who allegedly assaulted him while he was at the school to watch his son play. Additionally, witnesses claimed that the victim walked away from the argument, but as he was doing so, the alleged assailant hit him in the face, causing him to fall and lose consciousness.
Police later took the alleged attacker into custody and charged him with felonious assault. An incident in March had already led to separate charges of assault and domestic abuse against him. Additionally, according to WCMH News, the accused attacker had previously served nine years for aggravated murder in 2013 and two months on an abduction charge in 2012.
All of this is definitely something to keep in mind the next time one ponders getting into a war of words with someone at a youth sports event.