WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A prosecutor has told Massachusetts jurors that the 70-year-old father of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan spent the last few minutes of his life fighting off his angry, drunken 45-year-old son.
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Keeley said the physical violence by Mark Kerrigan put Daniel Kerrigan’s heart into what’s known as cardiac dysrhythmia — a loss or interruption of a normal heartbeat.
Mark Kerrigan’s defense lawyer, however, told the jury that Daniel Kerrigan died because he had severe blockage of arteries leading to his heart, not because of the physical altercation with his son.
The lawyers gave opening statements to the jury in Mark Kerrigan’s manslaughter trial.
Nancy Kerrigan and her family have supported Mark Kerrigan. They’ve said Daniel Kerrigan died of a longstanding heart condition.
