((HT: Fox 13 Salt Lake City))
Soccer referee Ricardo Portillo, who was punched by a 17-year-old player, has passed away according to Unified Police. He had been in a coma since the attack back on April 27, and died Saturday night at a local Salt Lake City medical facility.
Here's the story where Fox caught up with the referee's daughter...
Portillo had given the player, who is a minor and has not been publicly identified, a yellow card for a foul. The player then punched Portillo once in the face. He sat down and began vomiting blood.
"He was laying on the ground, on his left side in a fetal position," Officer Jason Huggard wrote in the police report according to the Salt Lake City Tribune newspaper. "Ricardo was complaining of pain in his face, back and [of] being nauseated. ... He had spit up a small amount of blood in his saliva."
The minor is in the Salt Lake Valley Detention Center on an aggravated assault charge, but it is anticipated that the charges will be escalated and added to before any new court appearance.
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said his office will seek to have 17-year-old Jose Domingo Teran certified as an adult and charged with homicide by assault a third-degree felony. Teran was charged in juvenile court.
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