Family Says Father Beaten To Death In Front Of Home After Incident At Children's School

Anne Arundel family mourns death of battered father after incident at nursery school

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A Maryland father of three has died after a fight at his son’s school reached his front door.

The man, identified by the Anne Arundel Police Department as Christopher Wright, 43, was allegedly attacked outside his home in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Baltimore on Friday, May 19. CBS News Baltimore and Anne Arundel police described the perpetrators as three or four white males in their 20s to 30s.

According to police, the incident began earlier that day, after a confrontation between one of his sons at Brooklyn Park Middle School. Wright’s fiancee, Tracy Karopchinsky, said that after her 14-year-old son got into a fight at school, three teenagers and two adults came to the family’s home, she reported. 11 News.

Wright’s family told CBS News Baltimore that the beating was in retaliation for the school confrontation.

“Chris came out to tell them, like, he’s not coming here to fight, and at one point they threatened to come in and get him, and then they said, ‘If he’s not going to fight, then you will.’ fight,'” Karopchinsky told 11 News. He said all three children were home at the time.

According to 11 News, the incident was caught on security cameras belonging to Wright. A neighbor’s cameras also captured the beating.

Anne Arundel police said officers responded to the assault around 5 p.m. local time. He was taken to an area trauma center for “treatment of a life-threatening injury.”

Wright was hospitalized and died on Saturday, May 20 around 9:45 p.m., police said.

Police said detectives from the department’s homicide unit are investigating the incident.