The fight was caught on a security camera.
Christopher Michael Wright, 43, of Maryland, was killed outside his house while trying to protect his children from a group that wanted to end a school fight. According to a report by New York PostWright was outside his home when he was confronted by three teenagers and two adults looking for his fiancée’s 14-year-old son.
The 14-year-old had gotten into a fight with another teenager at Brooklyn Park Middle School earlier in the day. WBAL-TV reported.
When the man told the group the child won’t step outside his home to fight, they told him, “If he doesn’t want to fight, then you have to fight,” Wright’s fiancee, Tracy Karopchinsky, told the broadcast.
The group attacked Mr Wright and he was taken to a nearby hospital where he died of a traumatic brain injury on Saturday.
“Just looking at the damage that was done to him, it wasn’t just punches that did it. There’s no way that punches did that. The damage was done before the ambulance ever took him away. I mean he would had a seizure. It was done. There was nothing the hospital could do,” Ms Karopchinsky said.
The fight was caught on a security camera.
“My dad and I tried to go into the camera to see and the first video that comes up is my 12-year-old son screaming ‘dad, dad, dad’ and running out of the house into the street to go help his father,” Karopchinsky said. “And I couldn’t look after it anymore. I just couldn’t.”
An investigation is underway and school officials also confirmed the fight at the school.
So far no charges have been filed against anyone.
