By Kyle Feldscher, CNN
(CNN) — Former NFL quarterback and current analyst Mark Sanchez is facing a felony charge for his role in an altercation that led to the former New York Jet being stabbed early Saturday morning.
Marion County, Indiana, prosecutor Ryan Mears said Monday that additional police investigation led to the more severe charge. Sanchez had initially been charged with three misdemeanors as a part of the incident. Mears said he now faces a charge of felony battery involving serious bodily injury, which carries a maximum sentence of between one and six years in prison.
According to Mears, the dispute between Sanchez and a 69-year-old truck driver began over a parking space.
“You have the allegations of a 38-year-old man becoming involved in an altercation with a 69-year-old man who sustained significant, very severe injuries as a result of that altercation,” Mears said. “ … We are literally talking about people fighting over a parking space and/or a dispute about where people are parking, and it resulted in someone just incredibly significant injuries.”
Sanchez was in Indianapolis to work as an analyst on FOX Sports’ broadcast of the Indianapolis Colts game against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. An affidavit seen by CNN said that Sanchez was initially taken to a local hospital in a critical condition in the early hours of Saturday morning. FOX Sports reported Saturday afternoon that Sanchez was in stable condition.
Mears said an updated affidavit was submitted by police that contained more details which subsequently led to the felony charge. CNN Sports has reached out to Indianapolis police regarding the updated affidavit.
Sanchez allegedly approached the 69-year-old man, who works for a company which exchanges commercial frying oil, in a loading dock area of a hotel and escalated a dispute regarding the man’s parked vehicle, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement to CNN.
Detectives reviewed surveillance footage from the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, which captured the incident and showed Sanchez approaching the man’s truck and beginning a conversation, the affidavit said. CNN has reached out to the hotel to review the footage.
The man told detectives that Sanchez – whom he did not recognize – smelled of alcohol and was slurring his speech.
He also said that Sanchez had climbed up into the cab of the truck despite the man insisting he should not enter. The footage reviewed by detectives showed Sanchez grabbing the man and throwing him up against a wall.
The man told detectives that he pepper sprayed Sanchez and, when Sanchez continued to advance towards him, the man pulled out his knife and struck Sanchez several times.
According to the affidavit, the man was quoted saying, “This guy is trying to kill me.”
Sanchez later told a detective that he could barely remember anything from the incident, and that he did not know who it involved or where it happened.
Police were called to the Loughmiller’s Pub and Eatery on W Washington St, less than a mile from the Colts’ Lucas Oil Stadium, and found Sanchez with several stab wounds to his upper torso, the affidavit said. They also located a second man with a laceration to his left cheek.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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