CLAYTON, Mo. — A Missouri jury has convicted a father and son for attacking a Pokemon Go rival in a dispute that ended with all three males in a lake.
The St. Louis County jury on Wednesday discovered Robert Matteuzzi, 75, and Angelo Matteuzzi, 33, responsible of third-degree assault. Jurors really helpful a sentence of three days in jail and a tremendous for the daddy, and solely a tremendous for the son.
Pokemon Go is an augmented actuality online game during which gamers stroll round exterior looking for animated monsters on their telephones.
In June 2018, the Matteuzzis have been on one group and the sufferer was on one other. Each groups wished to say a Kirkwood Park gymnasium – a web site within the sport the place groups can compete for management.
After a scuffle, Angelo Matteuzzi and the sufferer rolled right into a lake. Prosecutors mentioned Robert Matteuzzi jumped in, dunked the sufferer and held him underwater whereas his son punched him. The sufferer suffered facial abrasions and different accidents, together with to his eye.
“Grown males – together with a person in his 70s – coming to blows over a infantile sport they’re taking part in is ridiculous, however there was nothing humorous in regards to the accidents sustained by the sufferer, who might have drowned,” Prosecuting Lawyer Wesley Bell mentioned in a information launch.
