Maryland dad beaten to death after protecting his kid in middle school fight

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Patrick Reilly - New York Post




A Maryland father was brutally beaten to death outside of his home while protecting his children from a group of teenagers and adults who wanted to finish a fight that started at school, according to the man’s family.

Christopher Michael Wright, 43, was outside of his home Friday when he was confronted by three teens and two adults that were looking for his fiancée’s 14-year-old son, who had gotten in a fight with another teen at Brooklyn Park Middle School earlier in the day, WBAL-TV reported.

When Wright told the group that the boy was not going to come outside to fight, they told him “’If he’s not going to fight, then you’re going to fight,'” Wright’s fiancée Tracy Karopchinsky told the outlet.

The group attacked Wright, who was then taken to an area hospital where he died from a traumatic brain injury on Saturday.



“Just looking at the damage that was done to him, that wasn’t just punching that did that. Like, there’s no way that punching did that. The damage was done before the ambulance ever took him away. I mean, he’d had a seizure. It was done. There was nothing that the hospital could do,” Karopchinsky said.

The deadly beating was caught on the security camera. Karopchinsky’s three children were all at home at the time.

“My dad and 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,” Karopchinsky said. “And, I couldn’t watch anymore after that. I just couldn’t,”



School officials confirmed the fight at the school and said they are now cooperating with Anne Arundel County police during their investigation, WBAL-TV reported.

No charges have been filed against any of the individuals involved at this time.

Karopchinsky said parents need to take responsibility for what she sees as rampant violence among teenagers.



“They didn’t just ruin our lives. Their lives are going to be changed forever. Their parents’ lives are going to be changed forever, and nobody thinks about that just from a fight,” Karopchinsky said. “It is everywhere, and somewhere, we as parents are failing these children as parents. It’s not the school’s responsibility. It’s our responsibility.”

She called Wright her best friend and said he was a devoted father who loved the stars and gardening. A candlelit vigil has been planned in his memory, she said.

[DemonGeminiX]

Jesus.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

horrible

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Caught on camera yet no one has been charged yet, that's a fucking disgrace.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

And they clearly know who they are from school

[lost in melb.]

Caught on camera yet no one has been charged yet, that's a fucking disgrace.

Seems to be common in your part of the world.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Greg Norman | Fox News




Police in Maryland announced Wednesday the arrest of a suspect in the May beating death of a father who sustained life-threatening injuries while defending a child after a schoolyard fight.

Suspect Trevor Taylor faces charges of manslaughter, three counts of second-degree assault, affray and disorderly conduct after the attack on Christopher Wright, according to a Anne Arundel County Police Department statement.

"The facts of this case were presented to the State's Attorney's Office for review," it said. "After consultation with the State's Attorney, homicide detectives applied for charges for Trevor Garrett Taylor in the death of Mr. Christopher Wright."

"Mr. Taylor was served on [a] warrant and is currently at Central Holding & Processing in Annapolis," police added.

Wright, 43, died on May 20. The day before, police say they "responded for a report of an assault that just occurred in the 300 block of Arundel Road West in Brooklyn" and "During their investigation officers learned that suspects arrived at the victim's residence in reference to an earlier altercation."

"A physical altercation ensued and during that altercation, the victim sustained life-threatening injuries," police added. "On May 20, 2023, at approximately 9:45 p.m., the victim succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at the hospital."

Wright had refused to let the two adults and three teens who approached his home on May 19 to speak with his fiancee’s son, Fox News Digital previously reported.

The boy, 14, had gotten in a fight at Brooklyn Park Middle School with another teen, and they wanted to continue the fight after school, but Wright told them he was not going to let them fight with the boy. His fiancee, Tracy Karopchinsky, told 11 News that the suspects then turned their attention on Wright, telling him that if the boy would not fight, they would fight with him instead.

When police arrived at the scene that night, they found Wright already receiving treatment from county fire department personnel.

Responders rushed Wright to a local trauma center for treatment of life-threatening injuries.

Police have said they are treating the incident as a homicide and have asked anyone with information to contact them. Police listed the suspects as three to four White males in their mid-20s to mid-30s in age.

"Anyone who assisted who abetted or was an accomplice of the main suspect or the primary suspect will be culpable," Anne Arundel County Police spokesperson Marc Limansky previously told local news of the investigation.

The school confirmed the fight to 11 News, and Karopchinsky told the outlet about how her 12-year-old had tried to run out into the street to help Wright but was "too late."

"Just looking at the damage, that wasn’t just punching that did that," Karopchinsky said. "Like, there’s no way that punching did that. The damage was done before the ambulance ever took him away."

"He’d had a seizure. It was done," she added. "There was nothing the hospital could do."