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New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers’ rivalry has reached a new level with a fan charged with having allegedly stabbed two Knicks fans earlier this month.
Jarrett Funke, a 24 -year -old man from Carmel, in Indiana, was accused of three crimes for his alleged actions in a local brasserie in the match 2 of the Eastern Conference final: battery with a deadly weapon, drums leading to serious bodily injury and criminal insruption committed with a deadly weapon, according to online records.
Funke, according to Fox 59, was alternated, causing a call to 911, but he had left the establishment. An employee of the brewery again called the police, saying that Funke had returned – the appellant then said that Funke had stabbed someone behind.
Jarrett Funke, 24, is accused of stabbing two fans of Knicks in an Indiana brewery in match 2 of the Eastern Conference final. (County of Hamilton)
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Police found two people with wounds by stab wounds when they arrived at the scene – one that had been stabbed in their backs and another in the leg.
One of the victims told the police that he had “briefly displayed a black folding pocket knife to dissuade (Funke) but that he had filled it because he had no intention of using it”. Funk would have overturned a hat of Knicks from one of the victims and would have started to curse him.
A general view of the Indiana Pacers logo on the field before the match between the Charlotte Hornets and the Indiana Pacers in Bankers Life Fieldhouse on April 02, 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Dylan Buell / Getty Images)
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Funke would have said that he “had recovered his pocket knife from his hooded sweatshirt and had turned him towards (one of the Knicks fans) with his right hand” after one of the fans of the Knicks pushed him to the ground and “started to hit him in the face”.
Funke said Knicks fans had started the heckling, but court documents claim that several witnesses called Funke as “the main attacker”.
The Pacers won the match to lead 2-0 in the series, but New York returned from a 20-point deficit for the third time that these playoffs won their first match in the series on Sunday evening.
This is the ninth meeting between the Knicks and the Pacers in the playoffs, with four to come throughout the 1990s. They also met in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference of last year.
A general view of Gainbridge Fieldhouse while the Indiana Pacers and the Boston Celtics play an NBA match. (Images Grace Smith-Imagn)
Match 4 is Tuesday evening in Indianapolis.
