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Confrontation between Yankess and Red Sox fan leaves one person dead

This is taking the rivalry too far.


A raging Yankees fan accused of running down a Red Sox fanatic by plowing her car into him after he chanted “Yankees suck” only meant to “scare” him, the accused killer allegedly told police.

Ivonne Hernandez, 43, gunned her car at Matthew Beaudoin, 29, and his friends after an argument spilled out of Slade’s Food & Spirits in Nashua, N.H., early Friday, witnesses and police said.

“She hit him so hard that his head went through the windshield and there was an imprint of his legs in the hood of the car. He didn’t stand a chance,” the victim’s sister, Faith Beaudoin, 27, told the Herald yesterday.

Witnesses said there was a physical confrontation between women outside the bar and Hernandez then got in her car and began driving away when Matthew Beaudoin and his friends spotted a Yankees sticker on her car and began chants of “Yankees suck,” said Beaudoin’s sister and other witnesses.

Hernandez then turned her car around and sped at the group, hitting Beaudoin and injuring a female friend who was standing behind him, authorities said.

Hernandez, of Nashua, was arraigned at Nashua District Court yesterday charged with second-degree murder, aggravated drunken driving and reckless conduct. She was ordered held without bail.

“She never braked, and she accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of people,” prosecutor Susan Morrell said during the arraignment.

“She indicated to police that she wanted to scare this group of people. She thought they would get out of the way,” Morrell added.

Hernandez was arrested at the scene, and authorities say she acknowledged she had been drinking but refused to take a Breathalyzer test. She admitted arguing with the group, said Morrell.

Faith said her brother, who lived in Nashua, graduated from Nashua High School in 1997 and managed a poker room in Manchester. He was also a big Red Sox and Patriots [team stats] fan, she added.

“I’m angry, hurt, sad and heartbroken. (He was) ... the most kind-hearted, wonderful person you could ever meet,” she said. “I hope she rots in a cold, cold prison cell for the rest of her life and that she sees my brother’s face coming through the windshield.”

Beaudoin died soon after being hit at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington.


Comments

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a tragedy, I just read about that. I hope this scumbag pos gets smoked.
  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,841 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty sad and insane. I had heard about this a couple of days ago. Nothing wrong with displaying a Yankee's sticker on your car (cah), but you gotta expect some verbal abuse if you're gonna do it in most of New England, especially about 25 miles from Boston.

    If you ever go to a Yankee's - Red Sox game at Fenway and wear your Yankee gear, you better strap in, especially after the game, and more so if the Yankee's get beat. Walking through Kenmore Square to the T after a game with a big white "NY" on you is G-U-A-R-A-N-T-E-E-D to make you a target for the crazies, AND they will react. Some of these whackos can give new meaning to the term "kicked ass". You won't be much safer on the T either.

    I hope this woman rots in jail. Don't know the law in NH, but life without parole sounds pretty good. How stupid to toast your life over a damn sticker and some beer talking guys.
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭
    WOW!!

    its a baseball game, she's 43 years old!!!
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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yankees fan here and this is ridiculous. 43, drunk, arguing with people 15 years younger then gunning them down. Loser. My best friend is a Sox fan and we mess with each all the time. We we traveled across the country to see each others stadium's but we used common sense and courtesy when in the opposing stadium. Also have been to Sox v. Yanks games and used the same approach.

    This gal wont see the light of day anytime soon and that is a good thing.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,492 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    and no Boston fan wants to run you over and kill you for saying all that.
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    if you go to a yankee game wearing Sox gear or vice versus you have to expect to get it....same happens here in Cleveland with the Steelers.....you don't wear Browns gear to Pittsburgh unless you are willing to take some abuse and the same here for Steelers fans....... but killing someone is taking it too far
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭


    << <i>if you go to a yankee game wearing Sox gear or vice versus you have to expect to get it....same happens here in Cleveland with the Steelers.....you don't wear Browns gear to Pittsburgh unless you are willing to take some abuse and the same here for Steelers fans....... but killing someone is taking it too far >>



    Well said.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Wait a second, you should be able to cheer for your team regardless of venue.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lets leave this situation out of the picture because obviously we all agree it is just plain insane and there is no excuse for it, however under most curcumstances you should be able to root for a team without being abused but some fans take it too far, I saw two Montreal Canadien fans acting up in the bathroom at the old Boston garden years ago and they both got the crap kicked out of them-badly, they were asking for it, there is some need of common sense to consider IMO. Wearing an oposing teams jersey and being respectful is one thing but getting drunk and belligerent will more than likely get you in a situation where your going to get beat down.
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    Perkdog makes a good point. I'm a season ticket holder for the Browns and like I said there are some folks who come to the game wearing Steelers gear and they do take some abuse....however the line gets crossed when fans drink twenty beers along with their secret booze stash that they have snuck into the game and then they want to get physical with everyone......luckily at Browns games they usually get dragged out by the cops before anything stupid occurs... sometimes the players cause some of the problems....a few years ago when T.O came to town everyone wearing eagles gear were really taking abuse...it was even worse than a Steelers game...but his comments and actions during the game were almost like a trigger....
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Any sort of physical violence over your favorite sports teams is insane. There are a lot of mentally unstable people out there.
  • Wow, this is really $%&@ed up!!
  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I hope this woman rots in jail. Don't know the law in NH, but life without parole sounds pretty good. How stupid to toast your life over a damn sticker and some beer talking guys. >>



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  • JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
    This is not the first time fans of two rival baseball teams were involved in an altercation that resulted in a death. An altercation between a Dodgers' fan and Giants' fan back in September 2003 resulted in the death of a Dodgers' fan.

    ESPN Column

    Fan shot in parking lot area of stadium

    LOS ANGELES -- Three people were arrested Saturday in the death of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan who was shot during a stadium parking lot dispute after attending a Dodgers-Giants game, police said.

    A police spokeswoman said late Friday that the fight was between feuding fans and that the shooter was rooting for the San Francisco Giants. But police said Saturday they were still investigating the motive and that it was unclear whether baseball was the issue.

    Mark Antenorcruz, 25, of Covina, was shot once in the upper body around 10 p.m. as he headed for his car, police and county coroner's Lt. Gary Kellerman said. Antenorcruz was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

    Police spokeswoman Lucy Diaz said Saturday that the victim had been in a shouting match with the three suspects, two men and one woman, and that one of the suspects went to his car, pulled out a handgun and fired.

    "Apparently we have multiple suspects who are Giants fans who got into an argument with a Dodger fan," Officer Adriana Sanchez, a police spokeswoman said. "One of the suspects shot the Dodger fan then fled the location."

    The 300-acre stadium complex is in the hills north of downtown.

    One of Antenorcruz's companions told a passing driver about the shooting and the driver pursued the suspects' vehicle and wrote down its license plate number. Police used it to track down the suspects.

    Diaz said it was unclear what charges would be filed.

    The National League West champion Giants had just won 6-4 Friday night and people were leaving Dodger Stadium when a group of San Francisco fans jeered Antenorcruz, who may have given a reply.

    Neither baseball team commented on the deadly shooting.

    The Giants clinched the division on Wednesday. Friday's loss, meantime, dropped the Dodgers three games behind Philadelphia for the N-L wild card slot.

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  • jdip9jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
    This is the third such story I've heard of fan violence involving Boston fans. In Boston two weeks ago, a Canadian fan got beat to within an inch of life, and the same thing happened to a Yankee fan 2 years ago after the 5 game sweep at Fenway.
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