Posted on 09/09/2014 10:23:38 AM PDT by aft_lizard
WICHITA Police are still looking for the men who threatened a youth football league coach with a gun and then began beating him before the coachs wife pulled out a gun and fired it in the air to scare the attackers away.
The incident occurred at about 7:45 p.m. Monday at Linwood Park in south Wichita, Lt. James Espinoza said.
A man watching the practice at the park at 1901 S. Kansas confronted the coach about his sons lack of playing time, lifting his shirt to display a handgun tucked into the waist of his pants. Moments later, five or six other men began beating up the 37-year-old coach, Espinoza said.
One of the men had a set of brass knuckles he used to beat the coach. Seeing the attack, the coachs wife pulled out a gun and fired it into the air.
The coach broke free of his attackers and went to his car for a second gun, which he pointed at various people in the crowd, Espinoza said.
The attackers had all fled the park by the time officers arrived, Espinoza said. The guns used by the coach and his wife were confiscated, but no arrests have yet been made.
Its upsetting to even hear a story like this, said Espinoza, who is a youth league football coach himself. It just sets a terrible example of coaching and parenting.
The police report did not document the ages of the players practicing or the team to which they belong, Espinoza said. Youth league teams involve players from the second to the eighth grades.
From time to time, youll have a disturbance with coaches or parents, but nothing of this magnitude, Espinoza said.
Anyone who shot video of the disturbance is encouraged to contact investigators at 316-268-4646, he said.
Youth league rules stipulate that each player on the team play at least four plays a game, he said.
Any young children who were at the practice and saw the fight and resulting gunfire, theyll probably never forget that, Espinoza said. It should be no part of the sport.
Reach Stan Finger at 316-268-6437 or sfinger@wichitaeagle.com. Follow him on Twitter: @StanFinger.
too much self defendin’ goin’ on out there...
Ohh yeah, its in one of the nicer parts of town.
/sarc
7K a year for a youth sport is insane
They will be....after two years and the hiring of an attorney.
Whomever trained his wife on CC didn't do his job. Six men with guns(s?) and brass knuckles attack her husband. Warning shot? Absolutely not in this instance. The warning should have been the collapsing body of the first man she shot. Brass knuckles are a deadly weapon.
If that warning shot into the air came down and injured/killed someone a block away she would be in jail now on manslaughter charges.
Plan B involves multiple renditions of “Yes Dear”, and a substantial Florist Bill . . . .
Just remember to grovel like you mean it. You don’t HAVE TO mean it, just grovel like you do. [grin]
>> Plan B involves multiple renditions of Yes Dear... remember to grovel like you mean it
Very good! Without knowing it, I’ve been practicing for Plan B since after the honeymoon! :-)
to be fair, i don’t know how the confrontation took place, it’s possible that she didn’t want to take the chance that she may hit her husband.
7K to play hockey?
Move to Minn. and let the kid play on all of the ice ponds that he can find...
>> its possible that she didnt want to take the chance that she may hit her husband.
Certainly. Then again, there were SIX to choose from.
Go to a big Texas high school football game, and there will be at least 20 offduty LEOs working the game.
It sounds like it was at a school. In most states you can not bring even a legally owned and carried firearm into a school.
That is why I always have more than one.
“Whomever trained his wife on CC didn’t do his job. Six men with guns(s?) and brass knuckles attack her husband. Warning shot? Absolutely not in this instance. The warning should have been the collapsing body of the first man she shot. Brass knuckles are a deadly weapon.”
That is true but shooting into a group of seven people she may have hit her husband.
Here in Minnesota kids hockey costs about 2.5K - 3K per year. Association fees, team slush fund, equipment, tournament travel & hotels. Off-season programs can double that.
It is widely practiced that the lines are rotated evenly until playoff time. Parents are paying money so their kids can improve at hockey. Any coach that shorts the bench is hurting the kids for his own ego.
Things change for high school hockey. Parents don’t pay as much and better players play more.
Does no one work anymore?
My parents came to maybe one game a year.
Hey! Not every kid is going to go pro! Why can't kids just be kids and play a game for the joy of it?
I feel so sorry for these kids with these over supportive parents. You are putting to much pressure on them and all that caterwauling from the sidelines is really unattractive!
I did consider that.
But, assuming that to be the case, a shot into the soft ground would have been safer for innocent people in the area.
I also considered the possibility that she could have stepped to within a couple of feet and plugged one of them, even if they were piled on top of him.
All easy to say, of course. Monday morning analysis of a sudden crisis is academic at best. I still go with the warning shot into the ground.
It’s not clear but if the practice was on school grounds, there may be laws against gun possession on school property. Not good laws, mind you, but laws.
And the thugs know where he lives...are the police going to guard his home 24/7?
Tyranny.
Spent 3 years in Alaska as a yut.
Most kids had a rink in their backyard. Pickup games were sandwiched around runs to the house for food. Elementary schools had hockey teams. It was great to be a kid...
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