… a veteran who fought in Afghanistan, dies in urban violence near campus.
He had met a friend and the friend’s girlfriend at a McDonald’s near the university campus at about 2 a.m. Friday. That’s when three men, possibly college students, harassed and provoked customers in the eatery, which caused an exchange of words between the groups, Paul Casey said.
Patrick Casey walked outside with his party and stood between his friend and one of the men from the group. As tensions appeared to subside, the unidentified man pounded Patrick Casey in the side of the head and ran off with the others, his father said.
“He was trying to step up and protect his friend,” Paul Casey said, citing what his son’s friend told him.