Mark Kerrigan — the brother of former figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, who won a silver medal in the 1994 Olympics — is in court today, charged with savagely beating their 70-year-old father who was found unresponsive in his Stoneham home early Sunday morning and later died, The Boston Globe reports. Mark has been charged with assault and battery on an elder with serious bodily injury.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the men got into a struggle after Daniel Kerrigan refused to let his son use the phone.
Nancy, as you may recall, shot to international infamy after she was attacked during a Olympic tryout as part of a plot by skating rival Tonya Harding nearly 16 years ago. Kerrigan, now a 40-year-old married mother of three, lives in nearby Lynnfield, Mass.