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    2 men charged in Dodger Stadium attack after Elton John concert
    • April 15, 2023

    Two men have been charged in connection with the beating of a married couple in their 60s in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after an Elton John concert last November.

    Reece Hopkin, 38, and Chad Reeves, 42, were each charged with one felony count of battery with serious bodily injury. Hopkin also faces one felony count of vandalism or destruction of property, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

    “What started out as a night of entertainment and revelry ended in violence,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.

    The attack, caught on video, occurred at about 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 following a fender bender after the first of John’s three sold-out shows at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles police said.

    Gascon said the violence grew from a dispute between a woman and the 64-year-old male victim. Hopkin and Reeves became involved and allegedly began assaulting the man who suffered serious injuries.

    Hopkin is accused of grabbing the cellphone of a man who was recording and throwing it on the ground.

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    Video in the immediate aftermath of the initial attack shows the man motionless on the ground, still being assaulted — possibly by multiple assailants — even as others attempted to curtail the violence. The man’s wife is seen being pulled by the hair as she attempts to check on her husband.

    The man suffered a concussion and a broken ankle, among other injuries, it was reported. The female victim said she was knocked unconscious, along with her husband, who she tried to revive for about 45 seconds, believing he had died, before he finally regained consciousness, it was reported at the time.

    ​ Orange County Register 

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