{"id":207200,"date":"2026-06-01T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:38:08","slug":"new-jersey-flag-football-referee-strangles-coach-after-call-on-field-escalates-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207200\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey flag football referee strangles coach after call on field escalates, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A referee at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1307698284893203&amp;set=a.391942616468779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">South Jersey flag football game strangled a coach<\/a> after a call on the field escalated Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Edward McKinnie, 47, was charged with second-degree aggravated assault after he allegedly strangled a coach at the Franklin Township Sports Complex at a youth flag football game, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers responded to the assault at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Franklin Township Sports Complex on Pennsylvania Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a call on the field escalated, and McKinnie allegedly strangled a 46-year-old Newfield man who was coaching one of the teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses at the flag football game corroborated the assault, police said. They told police that McKinnie and the coach had to be separated by spectators at the game.<\/p>\n<p>McKinnie, of Blackwood, was processed and released, and he is set to appear in court for the assault charge, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coach who was allegedly strangled was treated by Gloucester County EMS for his injuries at the scene, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The assault remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A referee at a South Jersey flag football game strangled a coach after a call on the field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11951,15365,915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-207200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-flag-football","tag-gloucester-county","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}