Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Boston Man Bludgeoned With Baseball Bat in New York City

For wearing a Red Sox cap?

"Two arrested in beating of Andover man in New York" by Travis Andersen  |  Globe Staff, January 17, 2013

Two men have been arrested in the bludgeoning of a 24-year-old Andover man with a baseball bat and tire iron outside a Greenwich Village pizzeria on Sunday morning that left the former youth worker with a fractured skull, authorities said.

I'm not trying to flippant when I guy has a fractured skull; however, time to ban baseball bats. Cutting down all those trees can't be helping the global warming problem.  

Law enforcement officials declined to identify the victim Wednesday, but the New York Daily News, citing police and witnesses, reported that the man is Kevin McCarron of Andover. His family could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

According to the New York City Police Department, officers responded to 95 MacDougal St. at about 5:10 a.m. and discovered that several suspects had approached a group including McCarron and that an altercation ensued....

A brief video clip posted to the Daily News website that apparently captured part of the attack shows several young men kicking another man on the ground. One attacker is wielding a large object. A woman can be heard screaming, and a man is heard shouting profanity....

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