Dispute Over Towel Results In Brawl Involving 40 People At NorCal Water Park, Man Hospitalized
Raging Waters was shut down early Sunday afternoon after a large fight involving 40 people started all over a beach towel.
One man was seriously injured after he was found without a pulse by the paramedics. He is currently in a coma.
The water park closed business operations for the rest of the day.
Fox News Reports:
An Alcohol-ridden brawl involving dozens at a California water park Sunday was sparked after two families got into a confrontation over a beach towel, police said.
Police responded to Raging Waters, a water park located in Sacramento, Calif., around 3:28 p.m. Sunday. Christopher Neves, 35, of Modesto, was found unconscious and without a heartbeat, officials said.
Paramedics performed CPR on Neves and regained his heartbeat. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was listed in a coma, according to Fox8.
Everest Robillard, chief of the Cal Expo Police Department, said officers broke up a fight involving around 40 people. Two families, each with about 15 to 20 people, began arguing when an individual from one family allegedly took a beach towel belonging to a member of the other family.
“It started over a beach towel and then escalated into verbal insults and profanity — one family getting angry because of profanities being said in front of children,” Robillard told the newspaper. “The next thing we know of, it became physical.”
Robillard said alcohol was involved. One witness described how someone cracked a chair over the head of another person during the fight, the Sacramento Bee reported. It was unclear how Neves was injured and if anyone was charged in the incident.
This is such a sad but avoidable situation. I cannot believe they did all of these acts in front of innocent children. Let us please pray for the man that was seriously injured and let us hope that they find those responsible for this brawl.
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