Coach Viciously Beaten During Evening Basketball Game - ktla 5

A battalion of pack members invaded a Long Beach parkland
gymnasium, attacked a male child playing in the city's Midnight Basketball Program,
and then viciously beat out a manager who came to the kid's aid, it was reported
today. The grownup was hospitalized nightlong followers the Thursday nighttime
battery, his caput a bloated and bloody messiness and his ribs broken, the Long Beach
Press-Telegram reported. The coach, whose full name is being withheld to protect him from pack retaliation, suffered broken castanets in his face, custody and ribs, and had a cut to his human human face that needful stitches. Some 15 males ages 17 to 24, reportedly members of the Baby Insane Crips
gang, invaded the gymnasium at McBride Park at 1550 St Martin Martin Luther King Avenue in Long
Beach late Thursday night, police force said. The gangbangers attacked one of the
boys playing hoops in the gymnasium under a city-sponsored diversion programme to maintain
idle teens off the streets. The coach, identified only as "Richard," went to the youth's aid. "He was just trying to maintain his participants safe, he was just doing his
job, and what makes he get?" is married woman asked the Press-Telegram angrily. "They
tried to beat out the life out of him." Richard told the paper that he was at the parkland early, before Thursday
night's scheduled game, when he saw one his his participants attacked. After
shouting at the gangbangers, they turned on him and started swinging. "I swung back ... I was defending myself," he said. "Then about 15
guys came running in." A City of Long Beach Parks employee said he believes the fighting was not
about the basketball game league, but was brought in from the streets outside. "This sort of material haps all the clip around here," said Larry McCraw.