Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 05, 2008
Murder Over Baseball

This is just too much:

A woman accused of running down a man in her car after a Red Sox-Yankees argument in a bar never hit her brakes as she accelerated toward the small group he was in, a prosecutor said Monday.

"She never braked, and she accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of people," prosecutor Susan Morrell said of Ivonne Hernandez, who is charged with reckless second-degree murder in the death early Friday of Matthew Beaudoin, 29.

Appearently, Hernandez is a Yankees fan, and the Red Sox fans at the bar taunted her. Last I heard, being taunted by your foes isn't a reason to run them over. In fact, unless they're standing in the street with a gun pointed at you, I can think of no reason to run over someone. This is just disgusting.


Posted by David Pinto at 05:44 PM | Fan Violence | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Like most of these stories, I have a feeling the baseball aspect is being blown way out of proportion. I'm almost certain there's an important part of the story not being told. But that doesn't sell papers. Or get links ;)

Posted by: Mike A. at May 5, 2008 06:25 PM

The original Boston Globe story mentions a fist-fight between the killer and some girl the deceased was at the bar with. Apparently the fight happened shortly before the homicide, but the ESPN story only mentions the girl as someone who was also struck by the vehicle.

Maybe the two women got into it because of the Yanks/Sox thing, but it seems just as likely to me that the Rivalry was the proverbial straw that drove the drunk woman insane.

Posted by: the other josh at May 5, 2008 06:48 PM

...and they say pot is worse than alcohol.

Posted by: Andrew at May 5, 2008 07:08 PM
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