What caused Yankees-fan Yvonne Hernandez to murder? A “Yankees suck” chant.
Authorities won’t describe the argument beforehand in Slade’s Food & Spirits, but witnesses said it heated up when Hernandez identified herself as a New York Yankees fan. Nashua, 45 miles northwest of Boston, is Red Sox country.Bartender Tanya Moran said the argument spilled outside, and at least one person in a group that included Matthew Beaudoin began chanting “Yankees suck!”when they saw a Yankees sticker on Hernandez’s car.
Hernandez, 43, allegedly gunned her car and struck Beaudoin and his friend Maria Hughes, 21. Beaudoin’s sister Faith Beaudoin said Hughes had only minor injuries, because her brother shielded her. Beaudoin died of massive head trauma at a hospital, Morrell said.
Faith Beaudoin said her brother, who lived in Nashua, was a 1997 graduate of Nashua High School who worked dealing poker at Sharky’s in Manchester and Nashua. She said his organs, including his heart, live and kidneys, were donated in hopes of saving other people’s lives.
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May 6th, 2008 at 10:24 am
[...] Yesterday I wrote about the Yankees fan, Ivonne Hernandez, who ran over a Sox fan in Nashua, NH, after a “Yankees Suck” chant literally drove her crazy. A few people emailed to ask whether I felt guilty about the murder (I was a part of one of the first crews to sell “Yankees Suck” t-shirts at Fenway Park). “How does it feel to fan the flames of death?” someone asked. Of course, it did make me think. But back in 99, when I started making those shirts, the rivalry was different, much tamer, and the fans along the Eastern Seaboard were too. It’s a fact that fans today are more violent (last May one Yankees-Sox weeknight game saw 20-plus fights in the upper section alone!). [...]
May 6th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
The Yankees Rule…
Red Sox fans have turned into a bunch of pussies…
May 7th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Normally I’d say that Yankees and Red Sox fans talking shit is a fun activity, but Anon, someone died here. This isn’t some “pussy” related shit—it’s death. So fuck off.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
yes someone died. he was a wonderful person and a very good friend of mine. I have noticed 3 yankees suck stickers on nashua cars in the past week. The stickers have likely been around for months or years and I never noticed it a great idea in retrospect. At the least owners should perhaps worry about destruction of their vehicle. we have seen the worst case senario. This crazy woman would have found another reason to vent her rage howeve I would dicourage anyone I loved from dispaying such a sticker.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:03 am
[...] week I posted about a crazed middle-aged female Yankee fan in Nashua running overMatthew Beaudoin, 29, for chanting “Yankees suck,” and this response came in yesterday [...]
June 4th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
fuck the red sox, they had it coming
July 26th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Herbert. You ignorant piece of shit.