The Michigan soccer referee critically injured this weekend after he was sucker-punched by Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad during an adult-league game died Tuesday in an area hospital. John Bieniewicz, 44, was left in critical condition Saturday in Livonia after witnesses say he was punched in the head as he reached down for a red card.
FOX News (h/t Henry P) Police said Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad punched Bieniewicz after he indicated that the 36-year-old Dearborn resident was going to be ejected.
Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad
One witness told MyFoxDetroit.com that Bieniewicz was punched near his throat and fell without raising his arms. The death was confirmed by the hospital and a family friend.
Saad was arraigned Monday in Livonia District Court on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. Bond was set at $500,000, and a probable-cause hearing was set for July 10. It is unclear if Saad will face new charges.
Bieniewicz was a dialysis technician with a wife and two sons, said attorney Jim Acho, who was a childhood friend. Acho says a fund is being set up to help pay for his friend’s funeral and burial expenses, as well as his children’s futures.
According to Acho, Bieniewicz was the only student-athlete in the class of 1988 to letter in both football and basketball at the ultra-competitive Detroit parochial school. Acho, who ran a basketball camp with Bieniewicz for four years after high school, said his 6-foot-5 friend would “wow the kids with dunks.”
But much to the surprise of his friends, Bieniewicz gravitated to soccer and fell in love with the sport. He has been a well-respected referee for two decades. He was doing what he loved on Sunday when he was attacked at Mies Park, Acho said.
MyFoxDetroit.com reported that Saad’s team has been kicked out of the league.
You just know it had to be a Muslim, who else would do that to a ref when they get the red card. So the Muslim murderers team has been kicked out of the league, and that is excellent, the next step now is for the courts to decide it was murder, because the ref would still be alive now enjoying life with his wife and his two Son's, but that is something he will never do again and may he R.I.P
The Muslim deliberately punched the referee in the head as he was going for the red card to send him off, there was absolutely no reason what so ever to have punched the ref, this is NOT manslaughter, this is murder, he has taken away a life, so he must now be sent to death row, or given life in prison without parole.
Muslims are a danger in anything they go, i wouldn't trust them to buy a loaf of bread without getting involved in planting a a bomb somewhere. Muslims should not be allowed in any sports, and more to the point, they should not be allowed in any Western country.