DA investigating death of fan after incident at Patriots game
Officials investigating the death of a New England man who attended Sunday night’s Patriots game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, say preliminary autopsy results do not suggest the man suffered a traumatic injury. Dale Mooney, 53, of Newmarket, New Hampshire, died following an incident in the 300-tier section of Gillette Stadium.The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office the autopsy results identified “a medical issue” and the cause and manner of his death remain undetermined pending further testing. The DA’s office said police and fire personnel responded to the section where Mooney was in apparent need of medical attention at approximately 10:57 p.m. Sunday.Authorities said Mooney was transported to the Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, where he was pronounced dead.”Our investigation remains open and ongoing. Any eye witness who has not already been interviewed by police, or anyone in possession of original video of the incident, is asked to contact the State Police Detective Unit – Norfolk DA’s Office at 781-830-4990,” the DA’s office said.”Numb. I just feel numb,” his wife, Lisa Mooney, said. “I just can’t even believe this is for real.”Lisa Mooney said Dale was a season ticket holder for 30 years.“I want to know what happened,” Lisa Mooney told WCVB. “What caused this?”Mooney’s wife said her husband, a father of two, went to Gillette Stadium from their New Hampshire home with three friends who told her they were verbally taunted by other fans during the game.Joseph Kilmartin, another fan who witnessed the incident, described it as a violent confrontation toward the end of the fourth quarter of the game between the Patriots and the Dolphins.Video Kilmartin recorded shows Dale Mooney as he approaches a group of fans on the 300-level of the stadium.”He basically grabbed another fan,” Kilmartin said. “They started tussling around for a few minutes. At one point, another fan walked over. He punched him … and the man just went out. It was pretty hard to watch.” Witnesses say there were some verbal confrontations between two groups of fans Sunday night.”I just saw a movement within that group that really denoted that there was some physical altercation going on and some people trying to break it up, some people trying to — you know — kind of distance themselves away from it,” witness Keith Noonan said. Noonan was attending the game with his son. “My son was a little shaken by this. I was shaken as well,” Noonan said.First responders performed CPR on Dale Mooney at the stadium. “That’s where we got a direct view of these heroes doing everything they could to try to save this man’s life,” Noonan said.”I just don’t understand why people have to go to that extreme,” Lisa Mooney said. “Why can’t it just be fun? That’s all it’s supposed to be, a fun family event.”Lisa said her husband had no known medical condition that she knew about.”It takes a lot to get him mad,” Lisa Mooney said….
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