By JOHN T. WARD
Three males have been charged with assaulting a 16-year-old Red Bank athlete in what he claimed was a racially motivated assault exterior a celebration in Oceanport final month.
Police, nonetheless, made no allegation of racial bias in complaints filed June 10 and obtained by redbankgreen Friday.
Among these charged had been two Red Bank Catholic High School soccer gamers, together with Alex Brown, the quarterback who made nationwide headlines for his onfield efficiency only a day after his mom died final November.
Raymond Jackson exterior his Red Bank residence final month. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
In the incident, Raymond Jackson, 16, of Spring Street, suffered a bone fracture above his proper eye that required the surgical implantation of a plate, in keeping with the charging paperwork. He additionally suffered a concussion, his father, Ray Jackson, instructed redbankgreen final month.
The youthful Jackson, a sophomore who transferred to Red Bank Regional High from Red Bank Catholic in April, instructed redbankgreen that the assault came about round midnight on Saturday, May 21, close to a house on Pocano Avenue the place he attended a celebration with a girlfriend, who had invited him.
He stated he was falsely accused of assaulting a feminine, subjected to racial slurs, after which attacked by three males a number of doorways away from the get together, the place he and his girlfriend had gone to attend for a rideshare. The assailants punched and kicked within the face whereas he was curled on floor, he stated.
See extra of Jackson’s account right here.
Charged with third-degree aggravated assault was Jake Jacobson, of Ocean Township, an RBC punter and place kicker. The grievance alleges Jacobson prompted “significant bodily injury” to Jackson by kicking him greater than as soon as, with at the least one kick to the top.
Brown (recognized as Alex R. Brown-Eskengren), of Rumson, was charged with easy assault, a disorderly individuals offense. Police alleged he pulled Jackson to the bottom and repeatedly punched him, ensuing within the cranium harm.
Also charged with assault, for allegedly pushing Jackson into bushes through the incident, was Anthony Veltri, of Oceanport.
The beginning dates of the three defendants had been blacked out of the complaints offered to redbankgreen.
The police complaints make no reference to racial bias. Oceanport police Chief Michael Kelly and Detective Gary Grimes, who investigated the case, didn’t reply to repeated requests for data this week.
Grimes instructed redbankgreen on May 25 that police had discovered no racial motivation within the alleged assault. “As far as the racial aspect, that doesn’t appear to be a part of it,” primarily based on accounts offered by others, he stated on the time.
Brown’s legal professional, Mitch Ansell, stated the incident concerned no racism, and his his consumer didn’t trigger Jackson’s accidents.
He instructed redbankgreen that Jackson, whom he termed an “uninvited” attendee of the get together, “got into an altercation” with one other male after Jackson assaulted that male’s girlfriend.
Brown, he stated, obtained concerned when noticed his pal “on the ground and defenseless” whereas being struck by Jackson. Brown “stepped in, and in defense of his friend, stopped any further assault by Ray Jackson,” Ansell stated.
“All that Alex Brown did that evening was come to the aid of a good friend who was in desperate need of help,” stated Ansell.
Ansell stated police had interviewed greater than a dozen partygoers, “and nobody, nobody said” that racial epithets had been used.
Contact data for Veltri was not instantly obtainable.
Ansell stated it was his “understanding” that Jackson would even be charged with easy assault. An Oceanport police information official declined to say if any minors had additionally been charged, referring the query to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, which didn’t instantly reply Friday afternoon.
Jackson’s father has not responded to voice and textual content messages left for him in latest days.
Brown set an RBC single-game file when he threw for six touchdowns and ran for 2 extra in a playoff win over Morris Catholic at Count Basie Field in Red Bank final November 12.
The feat, coming a day after the demise of his mom, Michelle Eskengren-Brown, to most cancers, generated headlines nationwide, and gained Brown acclaim from the likes of NFL star Tom Brady and tickets to the Super Bowl, performed in Los Angeles in February.
Brown, who led the Caseys to a NJSIAA Non-Public B state championship, had transferred to RBC from Mater Dei in Middletown simply months earlier, after that faculty shut down its soccer program. He graduated from RBC June 1 and is slated to attend Bucknell University within the fall, in keeping with information experiences.
Jackson performed on RBC’s junior varsity staff till he suffered a leg harm in a sport final season.
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