Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Mets Fan Murdered Mom After Loss: Queens DA
The Village Voice ^ | 07/30/2007 | Michael Clancy

Posted on 07/31/2007 8:04:36 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Doesn't this seem more like something a Yankee fan would do? Or a Red Sox fan? Mets fans always appeared more suicidal than homicidal. In any event, it's awfully tragic.

Michael Anthony—no relation to the former bassist of Van Halen—stabbed his mother in the head and beat her to death with a twenty-pound barbell on Saturday night after she tried to break up a fight between him and his father during a Mets game, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Monday.

Anthony, 25, of Fresh Meadows, started pounding on the walls while watching the Mets play the Nationals, Brown said. When his father, Fred Fischman, told him to stop, Anthony punched him in the face and threw him on the ground, Brown said. When his 61-year-old mother, Maria, intervened, Anthony attacked him, authorities said.

From the DA's press release:

The District Attorney said that, according to the criminal charges, the defendant was watching a New York Mets game in his family’s apartment on the night of July 28, 2007, when he began banging on the walls. At that point, his father, Fred Fischman, came into the room and yelled at him to stop. It is alleged that a physical fight then took place between the two men, during which Fischman was punched about the face and thrown to the ground. As the defendant’s mother, 61year-old Maria Fischman, attempted to intercede, the defendant allegedly pushed her and stabbed her once in the head with a knife. Mrs. Fischman then ran into the bedroom, where the defendant allegedly struck her several times in the head with a twenty-pound barbell.

Anthony faces up to 25 years to life on second-degree murder, third-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon charges. The Mets lost to the Nationals 6-5.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: baseball; homicide; newyorkmets; psycho; reallyreallybadsport; takemeout; villagevoice
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last
To: montag813
Do these even realize that the players themselves are multimillionaires who couldn’t care less what “team” they play for so long as the huge checks keep coming in, and once they leave the stadium in their limos, they quickly forget all about it?

Yep, in many instances, that's very true. And the same goes for the team owners, who don't really care about anything other than protecting their "investments," which of course they are always willing to trade or sell if the price is right.

21 posted on 07/31/2007 9:03:16 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the frequently disappointed but ever optimistic Mets fan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

I’m guessing he wasnt on any anti-depressants, this is just normal behavior.


22 posted on 07/31/2007 9:03:38 AM PDT by isom35
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Arpege92
"Obviously you’ve never been to Yankee Stadium during the subway series."

LOL! You're right! But you know, you can only push someone so far, even a Yankee's fan. For instance, I would expect them to murder that cowbell man if he ever showed up at Yankee Stadium.

23 posted on 07/31/2007 9:06:10 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: eastsider
Forget about it! Faith ain’t gonna give us a happy fall. We are going to be picking pumpkins in October.
24 posted on 07/31/2007 9:09:07 AM PDT by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

What’s really sad is that fans of any number of teams become this hysterical, depressed, or whatever...and the players don’t really care one way or the other about how upset they get.

That’s not an indictment on players of today, because I don’t think they cared more in the days of yore either. In fact, I’ve been hearing about how players are overpaid, don’t care about the game, etc. since I was growing up in the late 60’s.


25 posted on 07/31/2007 9:09:56 AM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dead

Good grief! John Rocker was right!


26 posted on 07/31/2007 9:11:04 AM PDT by meandog (Bush's name now synonymous with every bad word known.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: CT-Freeper

I should have read your posts before I sent mine.

But in a sense you could say the same about the fans. The only reason they care about an A-Rod or Bonds or Griffey or Maddux is because the player is so good. Once the players start to decline, they are “washed up” and booed and whined about on sports talk radio.


27 posted on 07/31/2007 9:13:34 AM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: angcat

In 1978, we were 14 games out in August, and there was no wild card. This year, we’re only 8 out in July, and 4 out of the wild card. Do you honestly think the Yankees won’t even make the wild card?


28 posted on 07/31/2007 9:24:05 AM PDT by eastsider
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

“We started fighting, and my mother jumped in,” Michael Anthony, 26, told police of the Saturday night incident in Flushing, authorities said. “She went into the kitchen and got a knife.”

Anthony and his mother, Maria Fischman, 61, struggled with the knife and “it broke over her head.” She then went into the bedroom and reached into a drawer, according to the criminal complaint. Anthony thought she was getting a weapon, he allegedly told cops, so he grabbed the nearest thing to him - a 20-pound dumbbell.

“[I] swung it, hit her and she fell to the floor,” Anthony allegedly said.

http://tinyurl.com/2zhncu


29 posted on 07/31/2007 9:28:35 AM PDT by kcvl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Are they SURE these folks weren’t disgruntled Astros fans?


30 posted on 07/31/2007 9:29:55 AM PDT by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The woman’s husband, Fred Fischman, carried a barbell downstairs after the attack, telling neighbors, “I wanted to have him committed but she didn’t want to,” witnesses said.

Joan Nigri, a neighbor in the 2,300-unit Electchester housing complex set up by electric union workers, said the family “kept mostly to themselves.”

“They were very quiet people,” she said.

http://tinyurl.com/3cjpxb


31 posted on 07/31/2007 9:31:17 AM PDT by kcvl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hemorrhage

we arent all insane. id say about 5% are nuts, the other 95% passionate.


32 posted on 07/31/2007 9:31:26 AM PDT by philsfan24
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Gator101
Well I am sure glad they clarified that! I was on pins-and-needles for a second there!

Me too! This perp would have been -4 when Van Halen's first album came out.

33 posted on 07/31/2007 9:33:06 AM PDT by montag813
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: kcvl
“They were very quiet people,” she said.

"He was a quiet man." - Rodney Dangerfield

34 posted on 07/31/2007 9:33:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Tall_Texan

Brilliant.


35 posted on 07/31/2007 9:37:07 AM PDT by dmartin (Who Dares Wins)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: philsfan24

Not sure about your 5%-95% stats ... but I’d grant you that there are exceptions to the “Philly fans are insane” rule. But, there is a sizeable number of insane people at Philly sports events ... be it the Eagles, Sixers or Phils.

Maybe its just my bias ... I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan - so I’m not big on the Eagles. Though as an Astros fan, I have no problem with the Phils (I actually root for the Phils and Braves because I so dislike the Mets).

Phils fans were pretty rough on Pat Burrell last year, though.

H


36 posted on 07/31/2007 9:40:58 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Hemorrhage

sixer fans are probably the nicest of the group. maybe its apathy but theres rarely much of anything going on at their games.

i can understand your dislike of the eagles. they can be a rowdy bunch and the hatred for the cowboys among fans here is head scratching at times.

you can have pat the flat burrell. he stinks!


37 posted on 07/31/2007 10:06:26 AM PDT by philsfan24
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: philsfan24

>> you can have pat the flat burrell. he stinks!

The way the Astros have been hitting ... we could probably use the help.

H


38 posted on 07/31/2007 10:14:05 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: dead
Dang it! Snorting Dr. Pepper out your nose HURTS!

By the way, you owe me a new keyboard.

39 posted on 07/31/2007 10:14:24 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (The Hunt for FRed November. 11/04/08)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: dakine
LOL!

My mother is very much alive, and very much a Mets fan. :-)

40 posted on 07/31/2007 11:17:33 AM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson