>>>Warning: The video above contains graphic content that may upset some viewers. Vermont State Police are investigating the death of a man after a fight at a basketball game Tuesday night. Police responded to the Alburgh Community Education Center on Champlain Street at 6:56 p.m. for a report of a large fight involving multiple bystanders. It happened during a seventh-eighth grade boys basketball game between Aalburg and St. Albans. Related: Man dies after brawl at middle school basketball game. By the time the police got there, the brawl was over and most of the spectators involved had left the scene. Police said one man, Russell Giroux, 60, of Alberg, who was involved in the fight, required medical attention. Detectives learned that Mr. Giroux had left the school and was driving home when he stopped his car and called 911. Giroux was taken to Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans. He later died at the hospital. Police did not say how Giroux was injured in the incident. The Grand Isle Supervisory Union released a statement about the incident Wednesday afternoon. Giroux’s body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. The cause and manner of death are listed as pending further investigation, including toxicology tests and ongoing work by Vermont Bureau of Criminal Investigation detectives assigned to the case. This is an active and ongoing investigation. VSP is asking that anyone who was involved in the fight, or who has any information, to call them at the Saint Albans Barracks, 802-524-5993. You can also submit any anonymous tip online.
>>>Warning: The video above contains graphic content that may upset some viewers.
Vermont State Police are investigating the death of a man after a fight at a basketball game Tuesday night.
Police responded to the Alburgh Community Education Center on Champlain Street at 6:56 p.m. for a report of a large fight involving multiple bystanders.
It happened during a seventh-eighth grade boys basketball game between Aalburg and St. Albans.
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By the time the police got there, the fight was over and most of the spectators involved had left the scene.
Police said one man, Russell Giroux, 60, of Alberg, who was involved in the fight, required medical attention.
Detectives learned that Mr. Giroux had left the school and was driving home when he stopped his car and called 911.
Giroux was taken to Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans. He later died at the hospital. Police did not say how Giroux was injured in the incident.
The Grand Isle Supervisory Union released a statement about the incident Wednesday afternoon.
Giroux’s body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. The cause and manner of death are listed as pending further investigation, including toxicology tests and ongoing work by Vermont Bureau of Criminal Investigation detectives assigned to the case.
This is an active and ongoing investigation.
VSP is asking that anyone who was involved in the fight, or who has any information, to call them at the Saint Albans Barracks, 802-524-5993. You can also submit any anonymous tip online.
