The grease truck driver who stabbed Mark Sanchez is suing the ex-Jets quarterback, saying he was left permanently disfigured by the alleged attack.
Perry Tole, 69, filed a lawsuit against Sanchez, 38, and his employer, Fox Sports, for punitive and compensatory of damages following the alleged violent attack in an Indianapolis alleyway at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
Video grab of Mark Sanchez with blood on his shirt walking down a street. Obtained by the NY Post
Perry Tole is the alleged victim suing Sanchez over the incident. FOX59
The lawsuit alleges that Sanchez, who was in Indiana to report on Sunday’s game between the Colts and the Raiders, “appeared intoxicated” when he “instigated an altercation” with Tole, who was parking in a loading bay in the alleyway while collecting grease from nearby businesses.
Tole suffered “significant injuries to his head, jaw and neck” in the ensuing fight, which allegedly saw the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Sanchez bodyslam Tole to the ground, the lawsuit states.
Authorities say Sanchez turned Tole’s own knife on him, stabbing the grease truck driver through the cheek and cutting his tongue.
Timeline of the Mark Sanchez stabbing and arrest
Friday Night
Mark Sanchez, 38, is in Indianapolis to serve as a Fox Sports analyst for the Raiders-Colts game on Sunday. He’s observed acting “erratically,” doing “wind sprints” in the alley behind Loughmiller’s Pub and Eatery in the downtown.
Just after midnight
A grease truck driver picking up cooking oil from a nearby hotel parks his truck in the loading dock, blocking the alley where Sanchez is doing sprints.
Sanchez approaches the driver to try to get him to move and eventually gets into an altercation where he body-slams him toward the wall and then to the ground.
The driver sprayed Sanchez with mace or pepper spray, but the former NFL quarterback continues attacking him.
The driver pulls a knife and stabs Sanchez two or three times in the chest, believing, “This guy is trying to kill me.”
Sanchez turns around and heads up the alley.
12:30 a.m.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers respond to a report of a person shot. They locate Sanchez in Loughmiller’s Pub.
It’s later reported that Sanchez is uncooperative with responding officers. He tells the detective he can only remember “grabbing for a window” and nothing else about the incident.
Sanchez is rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
The driver also suffered “significant injuries,” including lacerations to his cheek and jaw, with a cut that allegedly went through his cheek and hit his tongue.
Saturday
Sanchez undergoes surgery for stab wounds to the chest, and is stable.
He is arrested at the hospital and charged with misdemeanor counts of battery resulting in injury, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle.
Sunday
Sanchez is discharged from the hospital Sunday morning and transferred directly to central booking at Marion County Jail, where he reportedly posts his $300 cash bond.
Monday
The lawsuit also alleges Sanchez’s employer “knew or should have known” about Sanchez’s “unfitness as an employee, propensity for drinking and/or harmful conduct.”
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