Danny Briere apologized for his 23-year-old son's actions at a Pa. bar near his college. Police, meanwhile, confirmed they have opened an investigation for 'criminal mischief.'
who competes in Division 1 with Mercyhurst University in Erie said he was “deeply sorry,” for the incident Saturday night at a local bar, which wrecked the woman’s wheelchair.
FILE - Danny Briere speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, in Voorhees, N.J. The Philadelphia Flyers have fired general manager Chuck Fletcher and promoted former franchise great Danny Briere to the interim job. The Erie police chief told PennLive his department is aware of the incident and video and that the wheelchair-owner filed a report with them for the loss. He said police are beginning an investigation forwhich can be a third-degree felony, according to Pa.
It showed Briere, wearing a white baseball cap on backwards, climbing the stairs, then sitting in the woman’s empty chair before trying to wheel it out into the bar, but the wheels were locked. “I was more committed to having fun at school,” he told CHN. “Too much partying. That’s probably the best way to put it.”Mercyhurst University published a statement Tuesday that they were made aware of the incident after the woman posted the video on Twitter.
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