The New York Jets fan who has made headlines for punching a woman that was a New England Patriots supporter in the head following an argument as the game let out of MetLife Stadium after a 30-27 Jets overtime victory over the Patriots has been in some trouble with the law before. Kurt Paschke, a 38-year-old bartender from Long Island, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison in the past after stabbing a teen to death during a fight outside of a pizzeria in 1992, according to reports.
According to the New York Post, Paschke was convicted of criminally negligent homicide for stabbing the teen to death, but his mother, Colleen Paschke, defended his actions of hitting the woman following Sunday's game, claiming that the New England fans started the melee and Paschke was just protecting himself and his mother.
"There was a group of Patriots fans antagonizing our friends the whole game," Colleen Paschke told the Post. "Our friends were in the same row and, for instance, they were even making fun of a girl because she just gotten braces."
She continued: "As my son and I were leaving [after the game], the group came charging from behind and said 'Let's get them,' they push through us to get to his friends and start throwing punches. My son wanted to break it up. Then the girl [on the video] was throwing three punches at my son ... and with that, my son is just trying to protect himself and me."
Colleen Paschke said, though her son was trying to be protective, a guy shouldn't hit a girl, but also added that he had to defend himself somehow against a "maniac."
"Yes a guy should not hit a girl or a woman," Colleen Paschke told MyFoxNY, "but if you are going to get a maniac girl how much abuse are you supposed to take before you defend yourself?"
According to the Post, the woman in the video is Jaclyn Nugent, 26, from the Boston area, and a man identified as her brother told the paper that he just learned of the incident before telling the Post reporter to "Go screw!"
According to Fox News, Kurt Paschke and a friend were interviewed by police on Monday night but not taken into custody, while Paschke's father, who is a retired Suffolk County, New York Police Officer said his son was "very upset" over the incident and that he thought they were "making him out to be an animal."
The father of Henri Ferrer, the teen victim in the 1992 stabbing, said that he wasn't surprised to see Kurt Paschke as the face of the incident.
"I wrote the judge a letter that this guy is going to kill again," said Robert Ferrer per the Post. "He killed for no reason. He went out of his way to get a knife to stab my son. My son was involved in a fist fight, and he went out to get a knife and stabbed my son. They were the same age. They were the same size. He had no business killing my son."
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