By JOHN T. WARD
An argument over Sunday’s Super Bowl resulted in serious injuries to two Red Bank men and led to charges against a third man, police said.
And one of the victims had something similar happen to him at a Super Bowl party in Middletown seven years ago, authorities confirmed.
Robert Boyd, 26, of 46 East Bergen Place, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault Monday night, hours after police were summoned to that address and found two badly beaten and semi-conscious victims, Chief Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen.
McConnell said the argument and assaults appear to have occurred sometime between 8 and 10 p.m. Sunday night in the small house that Boyd rents on a street of large Victorian homes.
“It appears to have been a somewhat alcohol-induced fight that just escalated” during or after the Super Bowl, McConnell said.
Police were called at 11:45 a.m. Monday after a visitor found the injured victims, McConnell said. They are identified as Richard Yencarelli, 47, and Christopher Gibbons, 46, both of Red Bank. Their street addresses were not immediately available.
The victims were taken by emergency responders to Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune.
Gibbons was also the victim of an alleged attack by his older brother, James, following a Super Bowl party in 2008, authorities said. In that matter, Christopher Gibbons suffered potentially life-threatening internal injuries, according to reports at the time.
James Gibbons, pleaded guilty to third-degree aggravated assault and was sentenced to three years probation, according to a spokesman for the Monmouth County Prosecutor.
Yencarelli and Gibbons remained hospitalized Tuesday with “numerous” non-life-threatening injuries, McConnell said. It was not immediately known if any weapons were used.
Municipal Judge William Himelman ordered Boyd held on $200,000 bail, with no option to post 10 percent in lieu of the full amount. Boyd was taken to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, McConnell said.
