Patrick Gorman, 64, lived alone in Queens, New York, and enjoyed traveling around America to attend sporting events.
Just after midnight June 26, Gorman got off a bus near his home after attending a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays at Camden Yards — and that’s when the trouble started.
Investigators told the New York Daily News that Gorman bumped into the wife of Matt Smith and said, “I’m sorry, excuse me.” Surveillance video released by police last week shows Gorman later getting sucker-punched on a street corner. Gorman died in a hospital later the same day.
The city medical examiner found Oct. 29 that Gorman died from the punch, stroke, complications and a heart condition, but his death was ruled a homicide — and police told the Daily News that Smith, 42, was the suspect.
The paper added that after the alleged attack, Smith posted a Facebook status update: “I had to put my hands on somebody last night.”
In a later comment, the Daily News said he wrote, “Dude thought it was ok to disrespect wifey while on the bus thinkin’ nobody was gonna pop up. Not gonna go into details but I had to smack’em to sleep. I kinda feel bad though cause of what he had to deal with last night on Queens Blvd.”
“I had to bring him back down off of that cloud he was sittin’ on,” Smith also wrote, the paper said. “I guarantee (sic) you before he opens his mouth next time he’ll think about it.”