A security guard died after a fight broke out over the weekend at a Mesquite fitness center, police said.
Mesquite police were called about 4:30 p.m. Saturday to the Fitness Connection in the 2000 block of Town East Boulevard, near the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, where the man was assaulted.
The man, identified by family as 43-year-old Patrick Prejean, was taken to a hospital and later died. A family member told KDFW-TV (Channel 4) he’d been working as a security guard at the gym since last summer.
Police said his cause of death has not been determined.
Police said they were aware of a video of the incident was purportedly posted online. The video showed a group of men beating Prejean, who laid motionless on the ground as the group of men walked away. Police would not discuss the video further, citing the ongoing investigation.
“We want answers because of the way it happened and how sudden it happened. He was a gentle giant,” Michelle Hall, Prejean’s cousin, told Channel 4.
Hall said: “We are all numb because we can’t believe he is gone and the way it happened. He has three boys that [are] left without a father.”
Fitness Connection in Mesquite did not immediately respond to request for comment.
No additional information was available about the incident.
