Police release 911 call from witness to Michigan soccer ref attack
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A woman who witnessed an attack on a referee at a Detroit-soccer match says on a 911 call that the assailant ran to a car before "peeling out."
Livonia police released the emergency call that was placed Sunday from the site of a game at Mies Park.
On it, the unnamed woman tells a dispatcher: "The referee is knocked out. He's not waking up."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The woman says CPR is being performed on the referee, who is not breathing.
She says the man punched the referee with his fist, then took off in a Jeep with "a huge Brazil flag" on it.
The referee, John Bieniewicz, died Tuesday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A 36-year-old Dearborn man is charged in the attack.
Two memorial funds have been set up for Bieniewicz's family.