The Los Angeles County district legal professional has charged two males with a brutal assault on a 64-year-old as he was leaving an Elton John live performance at Dodger Stadium in November.
Prosecutors stated Friday they’d charged Reece Hopkin, 38, and Chad Reeves, 42, with felony battery. Hopkin was additionally charged with one felony depend of property destruction.
The assault occurred simply outdoors Dodger Stadium because the sufferer was leaving the Nov. 17 live performance. A suspect was arrested inside days.
The sufferer advised KCAL-TV Channel 9 that someone had punched the facet mirror of his automobile as he was leaving. A dispute then unfolded between the person and a lady who claimed duty.
In response to the district legal professional’s workplace, Hopkin and Reeves received concerned within the altercation and started assaulting the person, who suffered critical accidents. Hopkin additionally allegedly grabbed the cellphone of a person recording the incident and threw it to the bottom.
In a press release asserting the costs, Dist. Atty. George Gascón stated he was working to make sure the county’s leisure areas have been “protected for all.”
“What began out as an evening of leisure and revelry led to violence,” he stated. “Verbal disagreements ought to by no means take such a harmful flip.”
The 2 males are scheduled to be arraigned Might 15 on the Clara Shortridge Foltz Legal Justice Heart.
