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The brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan has been charged in Massachusetts with manslaughter in the death of their father.
Mark Kerrigan's was indicted in Middlesex ((MA)) Superior Court and stands accused in the death of 70-year-old Daniel Kerrigan back on January 24th after a fight in the family home outside Boston.
Mark Kerrigan had already been charged with assault and was freed on bail a day after he completed a psychiatric evaluation.
Since then, he has been living with his mother in the family home where the alleged assault took place.
The family on the whole has insisted they do not blame Mark Kerrigan for the death of his father, who had a pre-existing heart condition.
Here's Fox25's coverage of the Kerrigan patriarch's death at the time of the autopsy being released...
Prosecutors say Nancy Kerrigan's father was trying to calm his son down when Mark grabbed him by the neck and attacked him- resulting in his death.
Middlesex ((MA)) District Attorney Gerry Leone says that Mark Kerrigan had been arguing with a female acquaintance the night of January 23rd. His father came home to try to calm him down.
Leone says that six hours later, after drinking heavily, Mark Kerrigan attacked his father in a "drunken rage" because he wouldn't let him use the family telephone to call that particular woman.
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