DETROIT, - A soccer player was sentenced to eight to 15 years in prison on Friday for fatally injuring a referee he punched during a recreational league game in a Detroit suburb last summer.
Bassel Saad, 37, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in February for causing the death of referee John Bieniewicz. Saad hit the 44-year-old referee in the neck or throat during a game in Livonia, Michigan, last June.
Saad, a native of Lebanon who lives in Dearborn, Michigan, is not a U.S. citizen and could be deported. Saad had originally faced a charge of second-degree murder.
Under an agreement with prosecutors, Saad admitted to causing Bieniewicz's death.
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4 comments:
LMAO "soccer".
Soccer players and fans go crazy at times. But only out of our country. First time I've heard of a crazy soccer anything here in the states.
I went to a fight one time and a soccer game broke out!
He deserves a longer prison term than that.
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