[QUOTE]LOS ANGELES -- A savage beating by two men outside Dodger Stadium left a San Francisco Giants fan in a medically-induced coma as police on Saturday urged any witnesses to help identify the attackers.
The assault after Thursday's season opener between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the rival Giants left a 42-year-old paramedic from Santa Cruz in critical but stable condition.
Police released composite sketches of the two suspects, who were wearing Dodgers clothing.
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Detective Larry Burcher said security cameras had yielded nothing of great value, but investigators were confident there were many witnesses with valuable information. Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrests of the suspects.
The two suspects cursed and taunted three men in Giants gear as thousands of fans left the stadium after the 2-1 Dodger victory, Detective T.J. Moore said.
The Giants fans ran and two got away, but the assailants caught up to one in the parking lot, struck him on the back of the head and as he fell, he hit his head on the asphalt, Moore said.
Both attackers then kicked the victim, then ran, Moore said. They fled in a four-door sedan driven by a woman with a boy, Moore said.
The victim's friends returned and found him on the ground.
Police have not released his name, but friends and family told his hometown paper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, that his name was Bryan Stow, a married father of two who works for a San Jose ambulance company.
Family members were at County-USC Hospital, where doctors put him in a coma to deal with his brain injuries, according to City News Service.
Rebecca Mackowiak, Stow's co-worker at American Medical Response, started a fund to help pay his medical bills.
"He is a really friendly guy and easygoing," she told the Sentinel. "There's not one person in this world who knows him who would think of him as a fighter."
The Dodgers said they were co-operating with investigators and wished the victim a speedy recovery.
After offering the reward, Antonovich called for enhanced security and strict limits on alcohol sales at Dodger Stadium, which is owned by the team and regulated by Los Angeles and the state Alcohol Beverages Control Board.
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt defended the organization, saying the violence was awful but that it can't always be stopped.
"I'm quite confident that all of our measures were in place, and it's just one of those things that you could have 2,000 policemen there and it's just not going to change that random act of violence. It's a sad, sad thing," McCourt said at the dedication of a Dodger-sponsored Little League field in South Los Angeles. "Let's keep in mind that opening day is 56,000 people, it's a lot of people, and the incidents we had relative to that were very, very few. But, that said, one is too many."
Southern California ballparks have seen violence in recent years. In April 2009, a man stabbed his friend in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after the team's home opener. Arthur Alvarez said he acted in self-defense and was acquitted by a jury.
Two months later at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, an off-duty police officer shot and wounded two men who assaulted him in the parking lot after a game.
The story said the West Coast rivalry started with a game played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on April 18, 1958. That was the first game between the teams in Los Angeles, but the rivalry started three days earlier, on April 15, 1958, when the Giants beat the Dodgers 8-0 in Seals Stadium in San Francisco.
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This is why I can't fucking stand the LA fan base. Lakers win the finals? Let's fuckin riot. Dodgers beat the Giants? Let's put a Giants fan in a coma, and kill him.
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oh come on its a fucking game
why do people need to get all fucking worked up over it
Videogames are violent guys.
Also I thought they beat up a giant fan.
Lol, sports
Pretty sure he didn't die.
[QUOTE=Hackintosh;29703061]Pretty sure he didn't die.[/QUOTE]
He's in a medically induced coma that doctors doubt he will ever come out of. They killed him.
holy shit my team lost
let's beat up the winners' fans cause they're related to the loss :downs:
[QUOTE=Dougz;29703146]He's in a medically induced coma that doctors doubt he will ever come out of. They killed him.[/QUOTE]
He's not dead.
They didn't kill him. In the future medicine will improve and I'm sure people will have the ability to be brought out of induced comas.
People have very boring lives.
[QUOTE=Esteam;29703003]Lol, sports[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure sports bring people together, but obviously your just a sheep that follows the media and a few bad events.
Tragic though, what's the point?
[QUOTE=M24;29703216]Pretty sure sports bring people together, but obviously your just a sheep that follows the media and a few bad events.
Tragic though, what's the point?[/QUOTE]
Yeah sports brings people together, to fight off the opposite fans.
[QUOTE=Mr.Dounut;29703177]He's not dead.
They didn't kill him. In the future medicine will improve and I'm sure people will have the ability to be brought out of induced comas.[/QUOTE]
A medically induced coma. They tried to bring him out of it twice already. Once he just kept having seizures, the second they got no response, they fuckin killed him. Don't try to make this less than what it is.
[QUOTE=Mr.Dounut;29703177]He's not dead.
They didn't kill him. In the future medicine will improve and I'm sure people will have the ability to be brought out of induced comas.[/QUOTE]
"No one's dead, in the future we can bring people back to life".
[QUOTE=Mr.Dounut;29703177]He's not dead.
They didn't kill him. In the future medicine will improve and I'm sure people will have the ability to be brought out of induced comas.[/QUOTE]
unless he dies before 2765
i guess the giants fans didn't wear any flowers in their hair.
This is late as hell, eh it doesn't look like it was posted though.
Makes you wanna club em in the back of their heads.
Wow. I would fucking shoot those assholes if I could. The Giants Fan didn't need to die. This is a load of shit. :smith:
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
Wow, I remember when this story came out over a month ago.
I know I'm late, but I hadn't seen it posted anywhere.
Didn't this happen just a few weeks ago with a paramedic?
Sounds like Los Angeles.
Ah, fanatical sports fans, the scum of the Earth. Actually, this appleis to mostly all fanatics.
But seriously, who the fuck kills someone because their bunch of dudes ran more balls into an area than the dead guy's bunch of dudes?
How the fuck we invest so much money in idiots running around baffles me. Same for singers.
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;29704904]Ah, fanatical sports fans, the scum of the Earth. Actually, this appleis to mostly all fanatics.
But seriously, who the fuck kills someone because their bunch of dudes ran more balls into an area than the dead guy's bunch of dudes?
How the fuck we invest so much money in idiots running around baffles me. Same for singers.[/QUOTE]
"why invest money in entertainment when we could just all sit around and do nothing?"
[QUOTE=FunTykoon;29705002]"why invest money in entertainment when we could just all sit around and do nothing?"[/QUOTE]
Or invest it in things that help the world.
ITT unathletic teenagers calling sports stupid
[QUOTE=Dougz;29703359]A medically induced coma. They tried to bring him out of it twice already. Once he just kept having seizures, the second they got no response, they fuckin killed him. Don't try to make this less than what it is.[/QUOTE]
This is tragic, but don't try to make it more than what it is. He's alive. Being in a coma doesn't make him any less alive.
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;29705760]This is tragic, but don't try to make it more than what it is. He's alive. Being in a coma doesn't make him any less alive.[/QUOTE]
He's never going to come out of it. He's better off. So I guess it's worse.
[QUOTE=FunTykoon;29705002]"why invest money in entertainment when we could just all sit around and do nothing?"[/QUOTE]
More like "let's be entertained by things that actually have more merit than entertainment". And I'm not even agaisn't sports or music itself. Placing them in the spotlight of our society? Fuck no, everybody loves superstar A but nobody would give a shit about the inventor who made everything around them.
