http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/sto...-castillo.html
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Witnesses say a rival player picked Castillo up in the final seconds of the game, and drove him head first into the ground. Peel Region police say the incident happened in an area outside regular game play.
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Emphasis mine.
At the risk of hyperbole, and having not seen a video of the incident (if one even exists), that description makes it sound somewhat like Bertuzzi's hit on Moore; that is, it wasn't an accident that occurred as part of the regular rough-and-tumble game of rugby but rather a deliberate attack away from the play.
FWIW, the family of the victim does not want to see the other play charged criminally.
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Castillo's family has called the incident a "freak accident" and urged police Thursday to drop the charges, saying it's enough that one family has been devastated.
"They were not playing volleyball. They were not playing checkers," the boy's uncle, Hector Castillo, told the Toronto Star. "We truly believe it was a freak accident …. I know that [Manny] would not want anything to happen to this kid."
Police, however, say the altercation went beyond a regular rugby brawl. They are still investigating the incident and may upgrade the charge to manslaughter since Castillo has died.
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