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February 29, 2008

Judge awards $1.3M to man beaten on UConn campus

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- A Southington man who suffered severe head injuries after he was beaten at the University of Connecticut has been awarded $1.3 million.

A judge has ruled that Jonathan Stewart can collect the money from Bryan Kapustinski, a student from Meriden who was the center for the UConn rugby team at the time.

Stewart was hit in the head with a fence post in April of 2004 at the UConn campus in Storrs.

The attack was apparently triggered after Stewart and others apparently didn't move fast enough to allow the truck operated by a girlfriend of one of Kapustinski's teammates to pass.

Kapustinski was given a one year suspended prison sentence. His lawyer says he hasn't had a chance to read to decision.

-- The Associated Press

Posted by Jack Perry  at 7:02 AM | Permalink

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