The brother of former Olympic figure skating great Nancy Kerrigan was charged with assaulting their 70-year-old father, who died over the weekend at the family’s Massachusetts home.
A sobbing Mark Kerrigan, 45, pleaded not guilty this afternoon in Woburn District Court on a charge of assault and battery on a person over 60 that resulted in injuries.
A police report said officers responding to the 911 call at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday found Daniel Kerrigan lying on the kitchen floor unconscious.
The report said 45-year-old Mark Kerrigan was found on a couch in the basement of the home in the middle-class Boston suburb of Stoneham and was “belligerent and combative” when questioned.
“[Mark] Kerrigan appeared intoxicated but appeared coherent in understanding questions and answering them,” the report stated, according to The Associated Press.
“He stated that he wanted to use the phone and his father would not let him. He said he struggled with his father and put his hands around his father’s neck and his father fell to the floor,” the arresting officer wrote.
Mark Kerrigan told officers that he believed his father was “faking it,” according to the report.
The officers said they saw blood on the floor near where Daniel Kerrigan had been treated by paramedics, as well as signs of a struggle -- including three pictures that had apparently been knocked off the wall and a broken piece of the telephone.
Brenda Kerrigan told the Boston Herald that her husband died of a heart attack and there was nothing suspicious about the death.
Nancy Kerrigan, a two-time Olympic medal winner, was at the center of a saga at the U.S. Championships before the 1994 Games, when an assailant clubbed Kerrigan’s right knee during practice and an investigation revealed rival Tonya Harding had knowledge of the planning of the attack.
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