Wife of soccer ref killed by punch serves red card at sentencing
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"He died doing what he loved but his death was senseless. Meaningless," Kristen said.
During the game in the summer of 2014, Bieniewicz issued the second yellow card to Saad, meaning he would be ejected. That's when Saad punched him. Two days later, Bieniewicz died.
"My brother was killed. Not by accident. not by illness but by the rage of another person," his sister said.
Saad spoke after hearing the messages from John's family, and said he wanted to apologize to everyone.