The Green Hornet
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I've been involved in the Mixed Martial Arts community for quite a few years now. This weekend, a friend and former sparring partner Phil Masterson, was murdered in Put-in-Bay, OH. His body was found by his mother and father behind a bar, where he was last seen. The family had filed a missing persons report on him after he went missing over Labor Day weekend.
Official cause of death was blunt force trauma and strangulation. Phil was one of the toughest people I ever knew, but also one of the kindest. Outside of the sport, he'd never hurt a fly.
I don't know what happened leading up to his murder by Zachary Brody, but I know myself and many, many others in the MMA community are completely sick by this news and heartbroken that one of our brothers was taken in this manner.
Phil was engaged to be married in December, his dad has cancer. His mother and father were the ones who located him, buried under a tarp behind the Island Club on Tuesday.
Anyone who is interested, here's the official report.. It also has a copy of the 9-11 call. I listened to it once, it's one of the most chilling and heartbreaking things I've ever had to endure. You hear his mother completely losing it, bawling her eyes out, and you hear his father wail out loud in the closing seconds of the recording. It broke my heart, gave me chills and has caused me several nightmares.
Phil Masterson was a good man; an honest man in a world sorely lacking them. His loss is not only a huge one to the MMA community, but to the world itself. He had a big future ahead of him, now he's gone due to some idiot who had too much to drink.
I hate posting on tragedies like this, last time I posted was during the Lauren Deis murder, which I still have yet to recover from. I wish life was more positive, murder didn't exist.. Awful.
Rest well Phil. You were a tough guy, a good guy who deserved far better than this.
http://www.ottawacountysheriff.org/News Releases/PIB Homicide.html
Official cause of death was blunt force trauma and strangulation. Phil was one of the toughest people I ever knew, but also one of the kindest. Outside of the sport, he'd never hurt a fly.
I don't know what happened leading up to his murder by Zachary Brody, but I know myself and many, many others in the MMA community are completely sick by this news and heartbroken that one of our brothers was taken in this manner.
Phil was engaged to be married in December, his dad has cancer. His mother and father were the ones who located him, buried under a tarp behind the Island Club on Tuesday.
Anyone who is interested, here's the official report.. It also has a copy of the 9-11 call. I listened to it once, it's one of the most chilling and heartbreaking things I've ever had to endure. You hear his mother completely losing it, bawling her eyes out, and you hear his father wail out loud in the closing seconds of the recording. It broke my heart, gave me chills and has caused me several nightmares.
Phil Masterson was a good man; an honest man in a world sorely lacking them. His loss is not only a huge one to the MMA community, but to the world itself. He had a big future ahead of him, now he's gone due to some idiot who had too much to drink.
I hate posting on tragedies like this, last time I posted was during the Lauren Deis murder, which I still have yet to recover from. I wish life was more positive, murder didn't exist.. Awful.
Rest well Phil. You were a tough guy, a good guy who deserved far better than this.
http://www.ottawacountysheriff.org/News Releases/PIB Homicide.html