PATS FAN WITNESS

Beasley Digital

4/23/2025

PATS FAN WITNESS

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00:00You know what I mean? Joey. Yes, hello. Hey, what's up, man? Hi, Joey. What's going on, guys? How are you?

00:07Good. So you were at the game and you saw the altercation that happened?

00:12Yeah, I was about three rows in front of where the guy was originally sitting.

00:16Oh, my God. The victim. Yeah, and what was it? How did it start? Like, walk us through it.

00:22So throughout the game, there had been a lot of back and forth between some fans in the same row as section over.

00:27And I think security had come up a few times.

00:31And at that point, security was already on their way, I think, probably to, I'd say, the third time in the game.

00:38And at that point, the guy just stood up and walked past security, the guy that ended up passing away.

00:43He walked right into the section next to us.

00:47And it was hard to tell at first. It looked like a lot of people were trying to pull him apart more than people were actually fighting.

00:53So I think people were getting in between them.

00:55And then finally, one guy in a dolphin shirt kind of just walked over and reached over everybody, punched him twice.

01:02And then the guy kind of just unfortunately fell back into his face and never seen consciousness.

01:07Do you know what the arguments were about in the section you're talking about?

01:14I think it was more just sports team related.

01:17And then, like you said, as the night went on, it was the Sunday night football game at Gillette.

01:21And everybody's drinking. You know what I mean? We've been there drinking since one in the afternoon.

01:26So it was basically like Dolphins fans talking trash to Patriots fans and vice versa and stuff like that.

01:33Yeah, it really, it was nothing out of the ordinary that you don't, you see it every Sunday on any, you know what I mean, social media platform.

01:40There's always fights in the sand.

01:41And I think what happened was the gentleman just had a heart attack, probably had an un-diagnosed heart condition.

01:48Well, we don't know that, so.

01:50Yeah.

01:51So I think it was just he shouldn't have been involving himself in the fight, not that any of us should.

01:57But I think the heart attack is what got him more than the actual altercations.

02:03I'm sure that's what caused it.

02:04But it was sad to see.

02:06It was definitely not what you go to Gillette to witness.

02:08By the way, we're talking to Joey, who was, he witnessed the fight where the Patriots fan died at Gillette on Sunday night.

02:16What happened now?

02:17Because I saw the video that you sent.

02:18It's the one that you, yours is a video that they're showing on TV and stuff like that, right?

02:23Yeah, I actually, I'm not giving anybody permission to release the full video.

02:27They've released some screenshots.

02:28But I just don't want the family to have to see that.

02:31Right.

02:32That's good.

02:32That's smart.

02:33Yeah.

02:33So, but what, do they have the, because on the video, you see the guy who hits him and stuff.

02:39Did they catch him or are they still looking for the team?

02:41They took him, immediately they took him into custody.

02:45I'm not sure of, I've seen no charges are being filed immediately.

02:49From what I've been told, that's mostly because the autopsy needs to be completed first.

02:54Yeah.

02:55But I do believe that, I know they took him into custody.

02:59I don't have an update on if they kept him or held him or anything like that.

03:03I'm sure that's like public record.

03:04But he was taken immediately into custody by the police.

03:08So what was your involvement?

03:10You know, I see that you had talked to a couple of news stations.

03:14When the fight was over, were you, did you talk to the police?

03:19Were you brought in for questioning and all that?

03:21Like, did they confiscate your video?

03:24Yeah.

03:24A cop had, he was kind of doing crowd control.

03:27There was like four cops in the area.

03:29And I had just thought to say to a cop, like, I do have a clear video of what happened.

03:33And he just asked me to see the video.

03:36And then as soon as I showed him the video, he radioed to his supervisor.

03:40And then two Foxborough cops came up and took me into, they have like a room set off to the side.

03:45So I was there until about one in the morning.

03:48How many people were, how many people were asked to be witnesses?

03:51Were people volunteering?

03:52Were they asking for people?

03:55So there was, there was only about five other people that they had taken statements from that I had seen in the same room.

04:02But I think my video was the clearest.

04:05I was held the longest.

04:07So.

04:08Yeah.

04:08I think you can, you know, like, like we said earlier, he did send us the video and I think it, it was pretty clear.

04:14You could see everything that happened.

04:17Yeah.

04:17So.

04:18Yeah.

04:18It was, it was unfortunate.

04:20I didn't plan on filming anybody's murder or death.

04:23I should say more than murder.

04:25Cause like, I don't think anybody was going into the fight with the intentions of it going that far, which is also a shame.

04:31You know what I mean?

04:31And somebody is most likely going to face a manslaughter charge over this.

04:35And that was never his intention.

04:36And that's the crazy part about this.

04:38Like you said, that wasn't the dude's intention, but that's why people got to think.

04:41And listen, this is coming from me.

04:43I have done, I have a laundry list of stupid things that I have done when I've been drunk.

04:49A laundry list.

04:50So me saying this should mean a lot.

04:52You people, you need to, when you go to games, think, think a couple of steps ahead when you get stupid and drunk and get heated at somebody.

04:59Think about how things could go wrong because this right here is the ultimate situation of something going wrong.

05:04You know what I'm saying?

05:05So you just got to think about it.

05:06It's ultimately, it's you watching dudes in a Jersey that for some reason you decided to root for playing a game.

05:15Yeah.

05:15There's nothing worse what happened.

05:17Not at all.

05:18Just unfortunate tragedy.

05:20Obviously, our thoughts and prayers go out to, you know, the man who passed because it's just an unfortunate situation all the way around.

05:27Yeah.

05:28Absolutely.

05:28I've had some of his friends reach out to me.

05:30He seemed like a really good guy.

05:32I mean, like you said, we all have terrible decisions we've made when we're drunk.

05:36And you just got to be careful.

05:38And nothing is worth it.

05:39No sports team or really anything at all is worth it.

05:42He paid the ultimate price.

05:43All right.

05:44Well, Joey, thank you for reaching out to us and giving us a call, my friend.

05:48No problem.

05:48You guys have a good morning.

05:49Thanks, Joey.

05:50All right, you too.

05:50That's Joey.

05:51He was the witness to when the guy passed away.

05:53Awful.

05:54Awful.

05:54It's tough, man.

05:55It's tough, you know?

05:56And I don't know.

05:59I just, I've never been, I don't like fights.

06:02And it's for that reason.

06:03Like, you just don't know, Romero.

06:05Like you said, you don't know what could be something as innocent as you trying to defend yourself.

06:10It just could be leave someone and it just could be tragic.

06:14Well, there's a difference between defending yourself and getting into a stupid drunk fight.

06:18No, I know.

06:18You're right.

06:19You know what I'm saying?

06:19And I know once you get to a point where you're so drunk, you're not thinking about it.

06:22But you know what?

06:23Maybe don't get that drunk then.

06:24Because ultimately, this is like a lesson.

06:26Don't get that stupid.

06:27And again, this is coming from me.

06:29I know.

06:29I was about to say, like, back in the day, if somebody had told you Romero.

06:33I know.

06:33So...

06:33I know.

06:37I know.

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