A father in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, died in the hospital of a traumatic brain injury after a group of people assaulted him in lieu of his 14-year-old son.
The suspects originally sought the 14-year-old, but whenThe suspects “threatened at one point to come in and get him, and then they said, ‘If he’s not going to fight, then you’re going to fight,’” Ms. Karopchinsky told WBAL-TV.
suffered a seizure amid a flurry of kicks and punches and died in the hospital on Saturday night. Security footage from Wright’s home, as well as from a neighbor, captured the incident.“I tried to go onto the camera to look, and the first video that comes up is my 12-year-old son screaming, ‘Daddy, daddy, daddy,’ and running out of the house into the street to go help his dad. And, I couldn’t watch anymore after that. I just couldn’t,” Ms. Karopchinsky explained to WBAL-TV.
A candlelight vigil, the time and location of which have not yet been set, has been planned in Wright’s memory.• Brad Matthews can be reached at
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