PHILADELPHIA - Law enforcement sources tell FOX 29 that criminal charges are expected in a deadly assault that happened outside a Philadelphia bar earlier this month.Police say surveillance video shows from Apr.
16 shows 41-year-old Eric Pope being escorted out of Tabu Lounge and Sports bar in Center City around 1 a.m. for being overly intoxicated.
While standing along South 12th Street, police say the bouncer punched him, knocking him to the ground unconscious.The video records Pope lying on the ground for a minute.
The bouncers move him to the sidewalk where he stays for several more minutes. A crowd eventually forms around him and the video ends.Police say Pope died at the hospital one week later, Saturday, April 23.A man police say was punched outside a club by the bouncer has died at the hospital and the Philadelphia Homicide Unit is now investigating.Tabu’s owner told FOX 29, in an email, the bouncer involved is not an employee of Tabu and the incident did not happen on their property.