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| Q |
Please state your full name? |
| A |
Jose Miguel Arpero. |
| Q |
How do you spell your last name? |
| A |
A-r-p-e-r-o. |
| Q |
Where do you live Mr. Arpero? |
| A |
Moorhead. |
| Q |
Approximately how old are you? |
| A |
Twenty. |
| Q |
What do you do for a living sir? |
| A |
I had a job, but I got fired. |
| Q |
Are you married or single at this point? |
| A |
Single. |
| Q |
Sir, I’m going to direct your attention to the evening of the 24th of June, 2006. Did you go out to the Red River Valley Fairgrounds at West Fargo on the evening of that day? |
| A |
Yes. |
| Q |
Who did you go out to the fairgrounds with on that evening? |
| A |
My family, my fiancé and our kids. |
| Q |
Who is your fiancé? |
| A |
Cassandra Belgarde. |
| Q |
And do either you and she or does she have children? |
| A |
Yup, yes. |
| Q |
How many kids does she have? |
| A |
Three or four actually. |
| Q |
When you got out to the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, did you see any other family members? |
| A |
Yeah, my brother, and his wife, and his kids, and my other brother – my younger brother and his girlfriend – fiancé, and his kids, and I guess that’s it . My sister, both my sisters. |
| Q |
Whose your older brother? |
| A |
Juan Arpero. |
| Q |
And whose your younger brother? |
| A |
Lionardo Arpero. |
| Q |
While you were at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, did you go the Midway area where there were rides? |
| A |
Yes. |
| Q |
When you were in that area, was there some sort of and incident that took place? |
| A |
Yes, there was. |
| Q |
What happened? |
| A |
Well, some guys confronted me, and the next thing you know, a guy swung at me, so I grabbed one guy in a head lock and I ducked down, they were just beating me in the back with the bat. Hit me in the head, I guess like one time probably with the bat, and I think I got punched in the head once, like my forehead, or whatever. That’s all I saw. |
| Q |
Anything else happen to you? |
| A |
Oh yeah, my ear got bit as I had that guy in the head lock, he bit my ear, almost bit it off. |
| Q |
Did you require medical attention after this incident at the fairgrounds? |
| A |
Yes I did. |
| Q |
What kind of medical attention did you receive? |
| A |
Ten stitches for my ear, I had x-rays done for my back. |
| Q |
While this assault was taking place with regard to you, do you know whether or not something was going on with other members of your family? |
| A |
I didn’t really get to see it, I only saw, I guess my cousin – there was about five guys on him swinging, and the group was moving and I seen my brother after he got hit in the head with the bat. |
| Q |
How many people were assaulting you as best you recall? |
| A |
I’d saw about four or five. |
| Q |
Do you know how many people in general were participating in this fight involving you and other members of your family? |
| A |
Well I seen about five on me and like I said about four or five on my cousin, and I didn’t really see my brothers at all, kinda just split up. |
| Q |
Do you know of any reason why this incident took place? |
| A |
No |
| Q |
Did you have some sort of a run in or confrontation with someone else or to the best of your knowledge did anyone else in your family have a run in or confrontation with anyone else at the fairgrounds prior to when you were assaulted? |
| A |
No. |
| Q |
Did you know the persons who assaulted you? |
| A |
No. |
| Q |
Did you know their names? |
| A |
No. |
| Q |
Did you recognize their faces? |
| A |
No. |
