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Unsurprisingly…

… the University of Virginia lacrosse player who killed his ex-girlfriend already had a pretty long police record.

… A 2008 Palm Beach County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office report describes an incident in which an angry George Huguely V had to be rescued from the Atlantic Ocean after he jumped from a 40-foot yacht during a heated confrontation with his father.

Huguely, 22, had two previous booze-related arrests, one in Palm Beach County and one that involved a violent attack on a female police officer outside a Washington & Lee University fraternity in Lexington, Va…

Margaret Soltan, May 5, 2010 4:22PM
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3 Responses to “Unsurprisingly…”

  1. dance Says:

    Wait a minute—you’re citing a suicide attempt as the first support for “pretty long police record”?

  2. dance Says:

    That is, I’m reading this post directly after the one from the thesdan about lacrosse culture, and it makes me think your rhetoric is a bit less accurate than it could be.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    dance: Wasn’t a suicide attempt. He was too drunk to realize he couldn’t make it to shore; his father had to call the police. There was a record of the incident, and I’m thus citing it as part of his police record. Since I wrote this post, a number of other incidents of violence and drunkenness in his past, some involving the police and some not, have come to light.

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