Thursday, July 25, 2024-American singer, Chris Brown has been sued by a security guard who claimed he suffered neck and hip injuries while breaking up a fight that already triggered a $50 million lawsuit
According to TMZ, Security guard Frederick
R. Overpeck filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Brown, 35, and Yella Beezy
seeking at least $15 million in damages.
Overpeck in court documents said he was
working as a security guard at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, on July
20 and was assigned to the backstage meet-and-greet area where the alleged
brawl occurred.
Brown, Dallas-based rapper Yella Beezy and
the corporation Live Nation were named in a $50 million lawsuit filed earlier
this week by four plaintiffs over an alleged attack during the 11:11 tour in
Fort Worth.
Overpeck's lawsuit backed their version of
events that Brown ordered the attack and described the scene as a 'prison yard
beatdown', according to court documents
The lawsuit claimed that when Overpeck, 58,
tried to step in he was assaulted with punches and kicks from Brown's
associates.
Overpeck, a father with two jobs, said he
didn't know who Brown was and claimed he was left with cracked vertebrae in his
neck and a severely injured hip, according to court documents.
The plaintiffs in the earlier case - Larry
Parker, Joseph Lewis, Charles Bush and Da Marcus Powell - said the incident
occurred July 20 after Brown's concert at the Dickies Arena, according to TMZ.
The four plaintiffs said in legal
docs that they had been invited and escorted into the backstage area with a
group of 40 women to socialize following the show.
The plaintiffs said in court docs that the
Forever artist took about a half-hour to arrive in the VIP area at the venue,
at which point they were ready to leave.
Plaintiff Charles Bush said that he greeted
the musical artist and told him he had performed well that night, according to
the outlet.
Bush said an entourage member then
suggested to Brown, 'Man you don't remember you two were beefing?' at which
point Brown said in response, 'Oh yeah, we were. What's up, n****? I don't
forget s***.'
Bush said in legal docs that Brown
told members of his crew to physically assault him, the outlet reported, at
which point a group of seven to 10 men surrounded him and hit and kicked him.
Bush told the court that one of Brown's
associates known as 'Hood Boss' launched a chair toward his head.
In the legal docs, the four
plaintiffs said that Brown also dispatched Yella Beezy, 32, and his associates
to assault Larry Parker, as a group of men chased him toward a staircase that
ended at a locked door, the outlet reported.
The plaintiffs said Brown ordered the men
to 'f*** up' Parker, who endured an assault for more than 10 minutes of punches
and kicks to his head.
Brown egged on his associates to join
in on the assault, the plaintiffs told the court.
The four plaintiffs said they all had to
seek medical attention in the wake of the attack after suffering 'severe
injuries' as a result, according to the outlet.
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