Up to date Dec. 21, 2023: The Erie County District Legal professional’s Workplace authorized Carson Briere, the son of Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere, and Patrick Carrozzi’s packages for Speeded up Rehabilitative Disposition, a different program for first-time, nonviolent offenders.
They’ll each get 15 months probation and may have their fees pushed aside and their data expunged in the event that they effectively entire it.
[Update March 2023]: A lady has come ahead on Twitter, figuring out herself as the landlord of the wheelchair that was once (inexplicably) driven down the steps by way of 3 Mercyhurst scholar athletes, together with Carson Briere, who’ve now been suspended by way of the college. The GoFundMe to lend a hand acquire a brand new wheelchair for Sydney stands at over $8,800 on the time this tale was once revealed.
The day before today, a tweet began circulating on Twitter that purportedly confirmed Mercyhurst males’s hockey participant Carson Briére, son of former NHLer and present Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briére, and some other unidentified guy inexplicably tossing an empty wheelchair down the steps at Sullivan’s Pub in Erie, Penn. Seconds later, with the wheelchair upended one flight down, each males casually walk into the pub, as nonchalantly as though that they had tossed a crimson Solo cup into the trash as an alternative of throwing anyone’s get entry to to the sector down a flight of stairs.
Deadspin reached out to Mercyhurst’s Athletic Division the day before today night, however gained no reaction. This morning, the college issued a remark all however confirming some of the males was once Briére.
The place it began
Right here’s the unique tweet and the remark:
Julia Zukowski, who posted the unique tweet thread, showed to Deadspin that the person within the white hat is Briére. Zukowski tweeted that the wheelchair was once left on the most sensible of the steps for the reason that girl who makes use of it (who needs to stay nameless) needed to be carried downstairs to make use of the restrooms. So no longer best did this girl need to maintain inaccessible restrooms, she had a few assholes toss her chair down the steps for no explanation why that any one can discern. A GoFundMe has been established to lend a hand the lady acquire a brand new chair.
Deadspin additionally tried to succeed in out to Briére for remark, however gained no answer prior to the tale went to e-newsletter. Alternatively, Zukowski did percentage this direct message from Briére that she gained on Instagram in a while after the piece went viral:
That is the place I forestall you from emailing me together with your “boys can be boys!” nonsense about how boys don’t know why they break issues, their brains aren’t totally advanced, blah blah blah. Carson Briére isn’t a kid. He’s a 24-year-old guy who performs hockey and has a father who works at hockey’s absolute best stage. That is bullying, simple and easy. It is going with out pronouncing that the one explanation why a wheelchair could be sitting unattended in a public area is that 1) anyone makes use of it or 2) anyone will want to use it. That is the similar of grabbing a wheelchair on the front of your grocery retailer and ramming it right into a show filled with canned corn. Idiotic. Merciless. Completely unhinged.
In step with the Mercyhurst remark, the college is investigating. Deadspin reached out to the Erie Police Division to resolve in the event that they had been additionally having a look into the subject however, on the time of e-newsletter, we had no longer gained a reaction.
[Update]: After this tale went to e-newsletter, Dan Spizarney, leader on the Town of Erie Police Division, reached out to Deadspin with the next remark: “We’re acutely aware of the incident, a document was once lately made, we’ve begun an investigation, however at the moment we will be able to’t remark to any extent further.”
We’ll proceed to replace this tale as additional information turns into to be had or if any person makes a decision to remark.
[Update]: Carson Briére admitted he driven the wheelchair and supplied a remark to TMZ Sports activities: “There is not any excuse for my movements,” he informed the opening. “and I can do no matter I will to make up for this severe loss of judgment.”
Upon fessing up Briére claims he’s “deeply sorry” for his conduct.
His father had this to mention, in line with TMZ: “They’re inexcusable and run totally counter to our circle of relatives’s values on treating other people with recognize. Carson may be very sorry and accepts complete accountability for his conduct.”
[Update]: Briére and two different student-athletes had been suspended.
