FORMER NFL star Mark Sanchez has been captured on video bloodied and stumbling through the streets after he was stabbed in an alleyway brawl.
The 38-year-old quarterback-turned-commentator was arrested and accused of starting an unprovoked fight with a 69-year-old truck driver outside an Indianapolis bar early Sunday morning.
Surveillance video released by the New York Post shows Sanchez clutching a dark patch on his torso and walking on the street at 12:30 am.
The footage was released after a bartender who was working near the scuffle said that a mangled Sanchez pounded on his bar’s window and begged him for help after the attack.
Workers rushed to bring the ex-player inside and called 911 while holding rags over his gushing wounds and trying to ask him what happened.
He was taken to a hospital and treated for his wounds before he was hit with a felony battery charge.
HORROR ATTACK
Sanchez was allegedly reeking of alcohol when he started accosting the driver over his truck blocking an alleyway, an affidavit states.
The driver had backed into a hotel’s loading dock while he was replacing old grease for restaurants when Sanchez approached him.
According to the police docs, the driver told cops that he started to believe he was in danger during the confrontation and sprayed Sanchez with pepper spray.
When the ex-NFL player didn’t stop approaching the driver, he thought, “this guy is trying to kill me,” the affidavit alleges.
The driver whipped out a knife and stabbed Sanchez “two or three times” before the player allegedly threw him into a dumpster, and the driver started to believe he was in a life-or-death situation.
Soon after this, a “look of shock” came over the player’s face, and he “took off,” the driver told detectives.
When Sanchez stumbled into the nearby bar, he said that he’d been shot and didn’t identify himself, bartender Scott Bennett told Fox affiliate WXIN.
Sanchez told detectives who spoke with him in the hospital that he didn’t remember anything about the night until he grabbed “a window,” an affidavit states.
He has yet to release a statement or comment about the incident.
WITNESS SPEAKS
Bennett said that he couldn’t understand Sanchez or get his name when he stumbled into the bar.
“I didn’t recognize him at all,” he said.
Pictures of the alleged victim released by WXIN show an older man covered in blood with a grisly slash across his cheek.
“His family says he was cut in the fight and it went through his cheek and hit his tongue,” WXIN reporter Angela Ganote wrote on social media.
The driver turned his hearing aid off because his truck was too loud when he was confronted by Sanchez, the affidavit states.
The former player was reportedly acting erratically and doing wind sprints before the brawl, sources told WXIN.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/sport/15298831/mark-sanchez-nfl-stabbed-cctv-video-arrest/
