U. of Fla. student fatally beaten after Dogs-Gator game
Numerous onlookers saw the beating Saturday night of Thomas Oliver Brown, 23, who was held down by three men and beaten by two others, the Jacksonville sheriff's office said.
Brown was not breathing and had no pulse when rescue personnel arrived. They tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at Shands Jacksonville, police said.
Jeremy Lane, 21, Alex Canzano, 21, Casey Schuurman, 19, and Mark Foss, 18, all of Jacksonville, and Jeffery Groncziak, 19, of Ponte Vedra Beach, were arrested and jailed on murder charges Sunday, police said.
The suspects fled after the beating but were stopped in a taxi van. A surveillance camera placed the suspects at the scene of the slaying, but the reason for the beating wasn't clear, police said.
Brown's father, Thomas J. Brown, said he was told by a detective that words were exchanged between his son and the attackers.
"He might have said something he shouldn't have, but it doesn't add up to murder," he told The Florida Times Union. "This isn't a fight, this is a massacre."
The younger Brown had attended Saturday's game between rivals Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville. The annual game known as the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
"We're not certain if it had anything to do with the game," sheriff's office spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
Samuel Canzano, father of Alex Canzano, broke into tears when asked about his son. He had tried, unsuccessfully, to contact him at the Duval County jail.
"He was not a kid who would do this kind of stuff," Samuel Canzano said. "With Alex, it was being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
It was not immediately known if any of the five men had a lawyer.
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Dogs
People will kill you for saying something against their team.
Not sure what they would do over a stolen car.
Numerous onlookers saw the beating Saturday night of Thomas Oliver Brown, 23, who was held down by three men and beaten by two others, the Jacksonville sheriff's office said.
Brown was not breathing and had no pulse when rescue personnel arrived. They tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at Shands Jacksonville, police said.
Jeremy Lane, 21, Alex Canzano, 21, Casey Schuurman, 19, and Mark Foss, 18, all of Jacksonville, and Jeffery Groncziak, 19, of Ponte Vedra Beach, were arrested and jailed on murder charges Sunday, police said.
The suspects fled after the beating but were stopped in a taxi van. A surveillance camera placed the suspects at the scene of the slaying, but the reason for the beating wasn't clear, police said.
Brown's father, Thomas J. Brown, said he was told by a detective that words were exchanged between his son and the attackers.
"He might have said something he shouldn't have, but it doesn't add up to murder," he told The Florida Times Union. "This isn't a fight, this is a massacre."
The younger Brown had attended Saturday's game between rivals Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville. The annual game known as the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
"We're not certain if it had anything to do with the game," sheriff's office spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
Samuel Canzano, father of Alex Canzano, broke into tears when asked about his son. He had tried, unsuccessfully, to contact him at the Duval County jail.
"He was not a kid who would do this kind of stuff," Samuel Canzano said. "With Alex, it was being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
It was not immediately known if any of the five men had a lawyer.
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Dogs
People will kill you for saying something against their team.
Not sure what they would do over a stolen car.
