Dude Punches An Elderly Handicapped Man In The Face And Breaks His Teeth During TCU Spring Game

FORT WORTH – A Fort Worth firefighter faces a felony charge after he allegedly sucker-punched a 78-year-old man in the face, breaking or chipping seven teeth, in an argument during TCU’s spring football game last week.

Shea O’Neill, 42, was arrested Tuesday evening by TCU police on a warrant accusing him of injury to the elderly, a first-degree felony, after giving police a statement about the incident.

O’Neill and the Arlington man had a heated exchange about O’Neill’s children playing on railing at Amon G. Carter Stadium.

“He assaulted me. I never even laid a hand on him,” the man said in a telephone interview with the Star-Telegram on Wednesday evening.

“First of all, he’s a coward. When you hit someone when they’re sitting down, you’re a coward,” he said. “He was 36 years younger than me. That makes him a coward with a capital C.”

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The Arlington man attended Friday’s spring football game with his 71-year-old wife. They were in the handicapped seating area of the stadium’s student section. They said three children were climbing and playing on the railing in front of them, blocking their view.

“I was a nervous wreck about those children,” the wife said. “I couldn’t understand why those parents didn’t correct them, so I would correct them sometimes. I did it really nice. I would say, ‘Could you please get down. You’re in my way. I can’t see.’ and ‘You’re going to hurt yourself.’”

The husband said he let his wife try to handle the situation for about 30 minutes before he got involved.

“I stood up and raised my voice and told them to get off the rail in a pretty stern voice,” the husband said. “They did and then they were right back on it.

“I got up again and raised my voice and told them in a much louder voice, ‘Please get off the rail.’ That’s when my first eye contact with [O’Neill] came about.”

The husband said O’Neill yelled at him not to discipline his kids, saying, “I’m the one to do that if I see fit.”

The husband said, “I told him he wasn’t doing a very good job to control his kids.”

The husband said that he sat down and that he and O’Neill had a heated exchange. He said he had just looked over his right shoulder toward O’Neill when he suddenly saw a red flash and was knocked out of his seat.

“He hit me square in the face,” the husband said. “I saw a flash. Then my whole front face from my eyes on down to my chin went numb,” the husband said. “… I couldn’t get up because I had cobwebs in my head. He smacked me really good.”

He said he had no warning and was unable to defend himself against the punch, which bloodied his nose and left bruises on his face.

“I did not see it coming. If I had … I would have tried to deflect it or duck,” the husband said. “Once I got up and stabilized myself, then I started after the guy. [Another] guy restrained me and said, ‘Let the police do it.’ It it hadn’t been for him, I would have been on it.”

He acknowledges that with his arthritis and advanced age, he probably wouldn’t have put up much of a fight.

Still, he said, after paying $425 for a temporary patch on two of his teeth and with more extensive dental work still needed, “I’m mad I didn’t get to enjoy throwing a punch at him.”

Welcome to football in Texas, where even the elderly get their asses knocked out.

How about this old timer? Still heading out to the TCU Spring game at the ripe old age of 71, gets his teeth blasted out of his head and his only regret was that he didn’t get a chance to swing back. You know he would have wrecked this firefighter punk too. Arthritis shmarthritis, Old Man Strength is no joke, I don’t care how handicapped you are. And what kind of scumbag piece of shit punches an old man sitting in the handicap section in the face? Let alone a sucker punch? Poor guy said it best – “coward with a capital C.”

PS – Sneaky favorite part is how “he let his wife try and handle it for the first 30 minutes” too. Just picture him sitting there like ahhhh fuck, I don’t want to deal with this shit, trying to see Patterson’s new tweaks on offense, please honey deal with these shithead kids treating the stadium like a jungle gym so I don’t have to get involved, realllyyy not trying to ruin my nice little Saturday.