17 year old child punches ref once and kills him

Its hard to believe a 17 year old child could throw one blow and kill someone. I hope he is locked up for life.

MURRAY, Utah (AP) — A Utah soccer referee who slipped into a coma after being punched by a teenage player during a game a week ago died Saturday night, police said.
Ricardo Portillo, 46, of Salt Lake City passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following an assault, Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal said.
Police have accused a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.
"The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face as a result of the call," Hoyal said in a press release.
The teen has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault.
Hoyal said authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.
He said an autopsy is planned. No cause of death was released.
Portillo suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
The victim's family, which publicly spoke of Portillo's plight this past week, has asked for privacy, Hoyal said.
Johana Portillo, 26, said last week that she wasn't at the April 27 game in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, but she said she's been told by witnesses and detectives that the player hit her father in the side of the head.
"When he was writing down his notes, he just came out of nowhere and punched him," she said.
Accounts from a police report, Portillo's daughter and others further detail what occurred.
The teenager was playing goalie during a game at Eisenhower Junior High School in Taylorsville when Ricardo Portillo issued him a yellow card for pushing an opposing forward trying to score a goal. In soccer, a yellow card is given as a warning to a player for an egregious violation of the rules. Two yellow cards lead to a red card and expulsion from the game.
The teenager, quite a bit heavier than Portillo, began arguing with the referee, then unleashed a punch to his face. Portillo seemed fine at first, then asked to be held because he felt dizzy. He sat down and started vomiting blood, triggering his friend to call an ambulance.
When police arrived around noon, the teenager was gone and Portillo was laying on the ground in the fetal position. Through translators, Portillo told EMTs that his face and back hurt and he felt nauseous. He had no visible injuries and remained conscious. He was considered to be in fair condition when they took him to the Intermountain Medical Center.
But when Portillo arrived to the hospital, he slipped into a coma with swelling in his brain. Johana Portillo called detectives to let them know his condition had worsened.
That's when detectives intensified their search for the goalie. By Saturday evening, the teenager's father agreed to bring him down to speak with police.
Portillo's family said he had been attacked before, and Johanna Portillo said she and her sisters begged their father to stop refereeing because of the risk from angry players, but he continued because he loved soccer.
"It was his passion," she said. "We could not tell him no."
http://news.yahoo.com/police-utah-soccer-referee-punched-player-dies-053841709.html

 

I hope O'Mara brings this up at trial, when BDLR says Zimmerman wasn't in fear for his life.

Game over.

 

Just in is the EMT photos before treatment ....

 

Geesh....a soccer GAME? A 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league sucker punches the ref & KILLS him. WTF... I thought soccer was a "nice" sport? Guess all those soccer moms will need to rethink that one.

 

Life? You've got issues. Even if he's guilty, it's more than likely involuntary manslaughter.

 

No, hes an animal. I don't care how pumped up you get, you dont go swing on someone and risk killing them. Thank god it was recognized early and not years down the line when he killed his wife because she didn't do what he wanted.

 

I hope he is convicted of whatever he can be charged with, and hopefully serve at least, some time.

Too bad time can't be tacked on for being a sucker punching coward.

 

Yep best to get those violent future right wingers off the streets early. Make it a better society for everyone.

 

Please bring on the Libs who will say its ok because he was playing a sport and just pumped up.

 

Well, what stymied hospital staff & physicians is that he appeared to be ok by the time he got to the hospital ...

 

Seriously, this thread is not about Trayvon Martin, do you get that?

 

My apology ... I should have pretended it wasn't.

 

This kids needs to be turned over to the later term abortion doctor that likes to snip babies' spins with scissors. We'd have to tie the kid up and give the doctor some bolt cutters but the late term abortion would take care of this kid's mother's problem.

The liberal horde will attribute this to the violent soccer culture that we have seen all of the world for years but we have to get back to personal responsibility in all cases.

It was a fluke I guess but that is why we don't shoot into the air anymore on the 4th of July.

 

Wow, all we need is someone to b*tch about climate change and this thread will become a 'Best Of' of PF since I started posting here. Too bad the story has literally NOTHING to do with any of it.

As for the Ref, it sucks. The kid will probably get Manslaughter charges, as is applicable.

 

I mean, shouldnt we all be so lucky dying doing what we love?

 

Sure, though I'd rather die an old man doing what I love vrs a young one.

 

Rose, if a 17 yr old can legally drive a car and get a job, he's not a child..... he's an out-of-control teenager who's never heard the word 'no' in his whole life....

He's not going to get life, but most likely manslaughter...

 

What!!!??? "Everyone knows" that a "17 year old child cannot seriously injure anyone".

Ask SuperBadBrutha; any grown man who is injured by a 17 year old, must be a "(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)".

 

In the 2nd post and Zimmerman's back...... oh well! Life does revolve only around Zimmerman and Martin..... for some.

 

We'll all pretend that we don't know the UN-TOUCHED pics look like this: (see below).

Time to post the "St. Trayvon the 12 year old" pic, again, isn't it?

 

Yup! The Zimmerman obsessed are back..... bet you even dream of Z, don't you?

 

What BS.

the first question is whether the 17 year old will face the charges in juvenile court or be tried as an adult in district court. Second, I will wait for the autopsy report. That report will determine what exactly happened and why Portillo died.

Made no mistake, the kid will be charged and be tried in accordance with the law. We simply don't need the vigilante justice that you described.

 

This has to be a made up story.......I've been told a thousand times on this forum that a poor little cherubic 17 year-old could in no way harm an adult with his fists........couldn't happen.....quit posting this untrue crap I tell you!

 

I see you're talking out of your a$$ again.

 

Sorry, but the factors are different in this case. So game on.

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How nice of you to leave out the weight factor, which has been brought up time and time again also. Oh thats right you cats try to say that weight doesn't matter.