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A Maryland father died Saturday after sustaining life-threatening injuries while defending his children after a schoolyard fight took a dark turn.
Christopher Michael Wright, 43, encountered two adults and three teenagers who approached his home around 5 p.m. on May 19 and assaulted him when Wright refused to let them speak to his fiancee’s son.
The boy, 14, had gotten into a fight at Brooklyn Park Middle School with another teen, and they wanted to continue the fight after school, but Wright told them he wouldn’t let them fight the boy. His fiancé, Tracy Karopchinsky, told 11 News that the suspects then turned their attention to Wright, telling him that if the boy didn’t fight, they would fight him instead.
Anne Arundel County The police responded to calls of an attack and arrived on scene shortly after 5 p.m. to find Wright already being treated by county fire department personnel. Emergency responders then rushed Wright to a local trauma center for treatment, as his injuries were life-threatening.
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Christopher Michael Wright, 43, was beaten to death after he stepped in to defend his son and refused to let the boy fight. (GoFundMe)
Wright succumbed to his injuries and died around 9:45 p.m. Saturday and was pronounced dead at the hospital. 11 News reported his cause of death as traumatic brain injury.
Police have said they are treating the incident as a homicide and have asked anyone requesting information to contact them. Police listed the suspects as three to four white males in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties. The Anne Arundel County Police Department said there have been no updates on the case since Wednesday, May 24, and no arrests have been made.
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Brooklyn Park Middle School, where the fight between two teens began and later culminated in the fatal attack on a parent. (Google Maps)
“Anyone who assisted in aiding or abetting the prime suspect or prime suspect will be guilty,” Anne Arundel County police spokesman Marc Limansky told local news about the investigation.
The school confirmed the fight to 11 News, and Karopchinsky told the outlet how her 12-year-old had tried to run into the street to help Wright, but it was “too late”.
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Firefighters and Paramedics at the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. (Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images)
“Just looking at the damage, it wasn’t just punches that did that,” Karopchinsky said. “Like, there’s no way punches could have done that. The damage was done before the paramedics ever took him away.”
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“He had a seizure. It was over,” she added. “The hospital couldn’t do anything.”
Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news.
