IrishBuckeye
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Whatever was said, it couldn't have been much.
Two strangers exchanged words outside an Arena District bar early Sunday after one reached for a beer that belonged to the other.
That was it, Christopher Foss said. His brother, Nickolas, walked away from the man standing with the case of beer on the street. He hadn't taken a beer. The other man didn't let it drop. He came up behind Nickolas Foss and threw a sucker punch at his head.
Christopher Foss watched his brother's head hit the pavement outside Gaswerks bar at 477 Park St. "It just knocked him out instantly," he said.
Nickolas Foss, 29, of Mechanicsburg, never regained consciousness. His family was told he was brain-dead on Tuesday. Police marked his time of death at Grant Medical Center at 4:11 a.m. yesterday, after his organs were taken for donation.
Homicide detectives said they have little to go on in the search for the man who threw the punch about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
Crime Stoppers is offering up to $2,000 for information that leads to an arrest, and detectives ask witnesses to call them at 614-645-4730.
No one had seen Foss' assailant before the brief encounter, Christopher Foss said.
"The guy took off running down the street," he said.
The punch robbed Charles and Terri Foss of their oldest son.
Nickolas Foss wanted to become a nurse. He worked at Riverside Methodist Hospital for more than three years and for the past four months was a patient-care technician at Grant Medical Center. He had just finished his first quarter at the Chamberlain College of Nursing's Columbus campus.
"He had such dreams," his mother said. "I wanted a grandchild from him so bad."
A few other things they shared about their son:
He was helping them remodel their home.
When Clyde, the family's diabetic, blind miniature pinscher, needed his shots, Nickolas often held the needle.
He was the king of useless and obscure trivia. His favorite movie was The Big Lebowski, which he could quote almost verbatim.
And he loved the music of Wilco, the critically acclaimed alternative country band.
His family played that for Nickolas on Tuesday night, in the hospital where he had worked, as they said their goodbyes.
The Columbus Dispatch : Man dies after being punched outside bar
Whatever was said, it couldn't have been much.
Two strangers exchanged words outside an Arena District bar early Sunday after one reached for a beer that belonged to the other.
That was it, Christopher Foss said. His brother, Nickolas, walked away from the man standing with the case of beer on the street. He hadn't taken a beer. The other man didn't let it drop. He came up behind Nickolas Foss and threw a sucker punch at his head.
Christopher Foss watched his brother's head hit the pavement outside Gaswerks bar at 477 Park St. "It just knocked him out instantly," he said.
Nickolas Foss, 29, of Mechanicsburg, never regained consciousness. His family was told he was brain-dead on Tuesday. Police marked his time of death at Grant Medical Center at 4:11 a.m. yesterday, after his organs were taken for donation.
Homicide detectives said they have little to go on in the search for the man who threw the punch about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
Crime Stoppers is offering up to $2,000 for information that leads to an arrest, and detectives ask witnesses to call them at 614-645-4730.
No one had seen Foss' assailant before the brief encounter, Christopher Foss said.
"The guy took off running down the street," he said.
The punch robbed Charles and Terri Foss of their oldest son.
Nickolas Foss wanted to become a nurse. He worked at Riverside Methodist Hospital for more than three years and for the past four months was a patient-care technician at Grant Medical Center. He had just finished his first quarter at the Chamberlain College of Nursing's Columbus campus.
"He had such dreams," his mother said. "I wanted a grandchild from him so bad."
A few other things they shared about their son:
He was helping them remodel their home.
When Clyde, the family's diabetic, blind miniature pinscher, needed his shots, Nickolas often held the needle.
He was the king of useless and obscure trivia. His favorite movie was The Big Lebowski, which he could quote almost verbatim.
And he loved the music of Wilco, the critically acclaimed alternative country band.
His family played that for Nickolas on Tuesday night, in the hospital where he had worked, as they said their goodbyes.
The Columbus Dispatch : Man dies after being punched outside bar
