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Two adults and three teens show up at family's door to confront a 14 year old boy inside, after an at school fight.
Stepfather comes out to tell group there will be no fight, the 14 year old is not coming outside, move along.
So the 5 assailants beat him to death in front of his family and kids.
Nothing but the most bland and generic mention is made of the attackers, their description or clothes or vehicles or anything to help ID them is missing from the report.
Father dies after group assaulted him in Brooklyn Park over school fight
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/brooklyn-homicide-assault-fight-christopher-michael-wright/43963597
BROOKLYN PARK, Md. — 22 may 2023
A father in Anne Arundel County was killed while protecting his children from a fight that started at a middle school and came to their home.
Christopher Michael Wright, 43, was killed while protecting his children from a fight that started Friday at Brooklyn Park Middle School and was brought to his doorstep in Anne Arundel County, his family told 11 News.
Wright's fiancée, Tracy Karopchinsky, told 11 News that her 14-year-old son got into a fight with another teen Friday afternoon at the school and that three teens and two adults came to her house looking for her son but encountered Wright outside.
"Chris came out to tell them, like, he's not coming out here to fight, and they threatened at one point to come in and get him, and then they said, 'If he's not going to fight, then you're going to fight,'" Karopchinsky told 11 News.
Wright was taken to Shock Trauma, where he died Saturday from a traumatic brain injury.
"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 told 11 News.
The incident was caught on security cameras belonging to the victim and a neighbor.
"I was at Shock Trauma, and initially, 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. And, I couldn't watch anymore after that. I just couldn't," Karopchinsky told 11 News.
School officials confirmed the fight at the school and said they worked to address the issue. Now, they're working with police on the investigation.
Anne Arundel County police said they are investigating and that charges could be filed against the individuals involved.
"Anyone who assisted who abetted or was an accomplice of the main suspect or the primary suspect will be culpable," Anne Arundel County police spokesman Marc Limansky told 11 News.
Karopchinsky said her three boys were home when their father was beaten.
"I'll never forget the sound, I'll never forget the noise my nephews made when we had to tell them he was gone," said Kristin Karopchinsky, the victim's sister-in-law.
Tracy Karopchinsky is warning parents that violence among teens has gone too far and said parents need to step up.
"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," Tracy 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."
Tracy Karopchinsky said Wright was a devoted father who loved the stars and gardening. He was her best friend, and that he was taken over senseless violence. His family is planning a candlelight vigil to honor his memory.
Two adults and three teens show up at family's door to confront a 14 year old boy inside, after an at school fight.
Stepfather comes out to tell group there will be no fight, the 14 year old is not coming outside, move along.
So the 5 assailants beat him to death in front of his family and kids.
Nothing but the most bland and generic mention is made of the attackers, their description or clothes or vehicles or anything to help ID them is missing from the report.
Father dies after group assaulted him in Brooklyn Park over school fight
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/brooklyn-homicide-assault-fight-christopher-michael-wright/43963597
BROOKLYN PARK, Md. — 22 may 2023
A father in Anne Arundel County was killed while protecting his children from a fight that started at a middle school and came to their home.
Christopher Michael Wright, 43, was killed while protecting his children from a fight that started Friday at Brooklyn Park Middle School and was brought to his doorstep in Anne Arundel County, his family told 11 News.
Wright's fiancée, Tracy Karopchinsky, told 11 News that her 14-year-old son got into a fight with another teen Friday afternoon at the school and that three teens and two adults came to her house looking for her son but encountered Wright outside.
"Chris came out to tell them, like, he's not coming out here to fight, and they threatened at one point to come in and get him, and then they said, 'If he's not going to fight, then you're going to fight,'" Karopchinsky told 11 News.
Wright was taken to Shock Trauma, where he died Saturday from a traumatic brain injury.
"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 told 11 News.
The incident was caught on security cameras belonging to the victim and a neighbor.
"I was at Shock Trauma, and initially, 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. And, I couldn't watch anymore after that. I just couldn't," Karopchinsky told 11 News.
School officials confirmed the fight at the school and said they worked to address the issue. Now, they're working with police on the investigation.
Anne Arundel County police said they are investigating and that charges could be filed against the individuals involved.
"Anyone who assisted who abetted or was an accomplice of the main suspect or the primary suspect will be culpable," Anne Arundel County police spokesman Marc Limansky told 11 News.
Karopchinsky said her three boys were home when their father was beaten.
"I'll never forget the sound, I'll never forget the noise my nephews made when we had to tell them he was gone," said Kristin Karopchinsky, the victim's sister-in-law.
Tracy Karopchinsky is warning parents that violence among teens has gone too far and said parents need to step up.
"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," Tracy 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."
Tracy Karopchinsky said Wright was a devoted father who loved the stars and gardening. He was her best friend, and that he was taken over senseless violence. His family is planning a candlelight vigil to honor his memory.
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