craig
2007-01-11 01:25:35 UTC
Brooklyn Boxer Killed While Trying to Break Up Bar Fight
Twenty-eight year old Kemal Kolenovic was killed yesterday morning when
an angry man drove into him outside a Bronx bar. Kolenovic had tried to
calm down a fight between patrons at the Moonlight Restaurant and Bar.
The NY Times says the fight was "apparently brought on by arguments
over which Albanian clan was superior." When the argument moved to the
outside, one of the men fighting got into his SUV, "made a U-turn in
his SUV and jumped the curb outside" and hit Kolenovic, whose back was
to the car, according to the Post. Kolenovic later died at St. Barnabas
Hospital with massive head injuries. He was not the intended target,
but the driver fled and the police are still looking for him.
Kolenovic was an up-and-coming boxer who had immigrated from
Montenegro. He was looking to fight at the Loews Paradise Theater in
the Bronx this month, if he could find an opponent. Don Stewart, a
boxing columnist for The Reading Eagle who saw him fight in May told
the Times, "He was real charismatic in the ring. He would jump up and
down in the corner before the rounds. He was a real tough little guy.
It's a boxing cliché, but he was a hard-luck journeyman who
couldn't get a break. He had fights that could have gone his way but
didn't for whatever reason."
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/01/brooklyn_boxer.php
Twenty-eight year old Kemal Kolenovic was killed yesterday morning when
an angry man drove into him outside a Bronx bar. Kolenovic had tried to
calm down a fight between patrons at the Moonlight Restaurant and Bar.
The NY Times says the fight was "apparently brought on by arguments
over which Albanian clan was superior." When the argument moved to the
outside, one of the men fighting got into his SUV, "made a U-turn in
his SUV and jumped the curb outside" and hit Kolenovic, whose back was
to the car, according to the Post. Kolenovic later died at St. Barnabas
Hospital with massive head injuries. He was not the intended target,
but the driver fled and the police are still looking for him.
Kolenovic was an up-and-coming boxer who had immigrated from
Montenegro. He was looking to fight at the Loews Paradise Theater in
the Bronx this month, if he could find an opponent. Don Stewart, a
boxing columnist for The Reading Eagle who saw him fight in May told
the Times, "He was real charismatic in the ring. He would jump up and
down in the corner before the rounds. He was a real tough little guy.
It's a boxing cliché, but he was a hard-luck journeyman who
couldn't get a break. He had fights that could have gone his way but
didn't for whatever reason."
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/01/brooklyn_boxer.php