USC UCLA 2010 Football Game: Pre-Game Fight Injures 2

by MROliver | December 5, 2010 at 01:19 am

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In a Fight Before the USC-UCLA 2010 Football Game, Two People Were Sent to Hospital and Three Were Sent to Jail

One of the men has been placed in jail for attempted murder according to the LA Times.

The fight broke out in a Rose Bowl parking lot at about 4:30pm, where many had been drinking since that morning. When police arrived on the scene they found about 50 to 75 people fighting and it took more than 15 minutes to break up the fight.

"It was just people and punches being thrown," said Martin Keeley, 32, who said he was a friend of one of the stabbing victims, whom he identified as 24-year-old Vimal Patel.

Patel was stabbed eight times in the back and is now in intensive care at Huntington Memorial Hospital, while Joshua Dirling was stabbed in the cheek.

Witnesses said the fight broke out after a group of tailgaters — including Patel, a student at Cal State Fullerton — threw a football that accidentally hit a black Mercedes-Benz belonging to another group of fans who also had been partying for hours.

Three men from the other group confronted Patel, his friends said, and at some point began stabbing him.

Joshua Dirling was expected to be released Saturday night.

Arturo Cisneros, Joshua Elder and Stevve Radu have all been arrested; Cisneros has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

USC beat UCLA 28 - 14.