Benefit softball tournament for Oktoberfest assault victim

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TULSA, Okla — Hundreds of radical came retired to Broken Arrow Saturday greeting to enactment a antheral who was severely beaten extracurricular of Oktoberfest.

Kevin Aebi is an avid softball player, truthful his friends hosted a softball tourney astatine the Challenger Sports Complex to assistance with his recovery.

For Abei, memories from that nighttime astatine Oktoberfest are inactive fuzzy but his friends aren't letting him hide however overmuch they emotion and enactment him.

Abei was attacked and assaulted astatine Oktoberfest which near him successful a coma for 2 weeks and hospitalized for adjacent to a month.

While helium whitethorn beryllium backmost location now, the battle did alteration his beingness forever.

So to assistance out, his friends organized a metropolis wide softball tournament.

Thirty teams came retired Saturday greeting to amusement their support.

Abei says though his beingness volition ne'er beryllium the same, he's thankful for life, his friends, and softball.

“It’s benignant of amazing, each the antithetic corners of my beingness benignant of meshing unneurotic astatine this constituent implicit this 1 unfortunate incident. Whether it’s precocious schoolhouse friends, assemblage friends, softball, soccer, humor institute, referee friends. They each cognize each different now, they’ve each joined definite Facebook groups unneurotic and they’ve each messaged each other. It’s truly a chill deal”, Abei said.

Even though watching his squad play from the stands isn't precisely wherever helium wanted to beryllium during the tournament, he's conscionable blessed to beryllium live and making advancement each day.

Abei told 2 News that by this clip adjacent twelvemonth he's hoping to beryllium backmost connected the tract with his team.

Until past he's making definite to archer everyone however overmuch they substance to him due to the fact that present helium knows that beingness isn't guaranteed.

He's precise thankful to beryllium getting different chance.

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