Vermont man, 60, DIES after brawl at a middle school basketball game

A brawl broke out among spectators at a middle school basketball game in northern , and a man involved in the fight died, police said.<br>Vermont state troopers were called to the Alburgh Community Education Center – about 50 miles northwest of Burlington – just before 7 p.m.

Tuesday after a report of a large fight involving spectators during a seventh- and eighth-grade boys basketball game between Alburgh and St. Albans.<br>A phone recording of the incident showed several people on a basketball court, with people being shoved, tackled, and punched . <br> A brawl at a school in rural Alburgh, Vermont left a 60-year-old man dead as police investigate<br> Police responded to the fight before 7:00pm EST at a game between Alburgh & St.

Albans<br>The fight ended before troopers arrived, and many of the participants had left. Russell Giroux, of Alburgh, 60, sought medical attention, police said. <br> <br /> He was taken by ambulance to the Northwestern Medical Center in St.
Albans, where he was pronounced dead.<br>Giroux’s death is being investigated by state police and the Grand Isle state´s attorney´s office. <br>The office of the Vermont medical examiner will conduct an autopsy.<br>Alburgh is a town of about 2,100 in northwestern Vermont.

It is surrounded on three sides by Lake Champlain. <br>The northern part of the community forms part of the border with Canada.<br> Alburgh is on a peninsula jutting into Lake Champlain and Pragmatic Play is on the border with Canada<br>