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Here's the follow-up.
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Man apologizes for attacking Royals coach
October 31, 2002
CHICAGO (AP) -- The man who joined his teen-age son in attacking Kansas City Royals coach Tom Gamboa during a game in September apologized in a phone call from jail to a Chicago-area newspaper. ADVERTISEMENT
``I regret what happened,'' 35-year-old William Ligue Jr. said in Thursday's editions of the Daily Southtown. He added that he doesn't remember much from the bizarre episode.
``If I was in my right state of mind, this would never have occurred,'' he said. ``I am so sorry for Mr. Gamboa. I disgraced Chicago and myself. I apologize with my heart.''
Ligue has been jailed since he and his 15-year-old son were arrested Sept. 19 after running onto the field at Comiskey Park and attacking Royals first-base coach Tom Gamboa during the ninth inning of a game against the White Sox. The father and son said Gamboa had made an obscene gesture toward them, but the coach denied provoking them.
A grand jury indicted Ligue on Oct. 11 on three counts of aggravated battery and one count of mob action. He is being held on $200,000 bond and is scheduled to be in court Friday for an arraignment.
His son has pleaded guilty in juvenile court to one charge of aggravated battery and two counts of mob action for striking Gamboa and an off-duty state trooper, who was working security at the game. The teen is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 7.
Ligue's sister, Kimberly Richardson, has said he went into a tailspin after his infant daughter died in May.
``I was going through so much stress,'' Ligue told the newspaper. ``I see on the videotape (that) I was out of my mind. I had to let anger out and it came out that way.''
Ligue also said he wants treatment for drug addiction.
``I have a terrible drug problem I cannot control,'' he said. ``I need help.''
He called the Sept. 19 incident, ``God's way to straighten me out by putting me here.''
Ligue phoned the newspaper, which is published in the south suburb of Tinley Park, from the Cook County Jail. He could not be reached for further comment Thursday, and the jail would not take telephone messages for prisoners.
