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Local sportscaster slugged after game

Coppock hit while leaving Allstate Arena

February 16, 2007

Sports broadcaster Chet Coppock was punched by a 25-year-old man Wednesday night as the two left Allstate Arena after a DePaul men's basketball game, Rosemont Police said.

Jaime Waldron, of Milwaukee, was arrested immediately after the incident and has been charged with battery, according to Rosemont Police Sgt. Keith Kania.

May have retinal damage
May have retinal damage
The incident happened after the game let out, although Coppock said he had noticed the man much earlier in the evening because he saw him behaving offensively.

As he was walking out of the arena with his girlfriend, Coppock said he and Waldron brushed against each other and the man began to "berate" him. Waldron continued to harass Coppock outside the arena, following him to his car, Coppock said.

There, he struck him in the right eye, Coppock and police said. Coppock said his retina might have been damaged and that he had a CT scan at a hospital.

"He decked me with one blind shot,'' Coppock said. "He threw a punch I never saw.''

Coppock's girlfriend alerted security, who detained the man.

Coppock said he does not know whether the man recognized him.

Waldron did not immediately return a phone call.

asweeney@suntimes.com