Newlyweds In Wild Fight At Hotel Near Pittsburgh

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Police: Newlyweds in wild fight at hotel near Pittsburgh

AP

Posted: 2008-04-28 11:59:52

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A couple brawled with one another, then members of another wedding party, hours after they repeated their vows and were headed to a room at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel.

 

Police say the fight between dentist David W. Wielechowski, 32, and his bride, Christa Vattimo, 25, began as the couple were about to enter their seventh-floor room at the Holiday Inn in Ross Township just north of the city on Saturday night.

 

The dentist "used a karate-style kick with his leg to kick Christa, knocking her to the floor," the criminal complaint said.

 

Two guests of another wedding heard the bride's screams and rushed over to help her. But when they restrained Wielechowski, his bride began attacking her rescuers, police said.

 

The fight traveled from a hallway to an elevator then into the hotel lobby where, police said, the couple threw metal planters containing live plants into an elevator at the men who tried to break up the fight.

 

"It was pretty wild," Ross police Sgt. Dave Syska said.

 

Police arrived to find the dentist lying on the floor of the lobby and his bride "yelling loudly" and "apparently highly intoxicated."

 

Both bride and groom were charged with simple assault, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. The bride was also charged with public intoxication. She asked a district judge not to require her husband to stay away from her while the charges were pending.

 

Both refused comment when they left Allegheny County arraignment court Sunday after spending the night in separate holding cells.

 

The bride, still wearing her wedding gown, was picked up by her father. The dentist left on his own, one eye swollen shut, wearing tuxedo pants, a bloody T-shirt and one shoe.

 

The couple face a preliminary hearing May 7.

 

The couple had been married in the Bahamas last month, but repeated their vows Saturday before a reception for 150 guests.

 

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UPDATE:

US newlyweds say their drunken brawl was just them playing around

AP

Posted: 2008-05-06 11:30:58

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pennsylvania couple who ended up spending their wedding night in jail said they were drunk and joking around when they inadvertently started a fight with hotel guests.

 

David and Christa Wielechowski said in an interview broadcast Monday on WPXI-TV that the headlines and media attention over the brawl has damaged their reputation and possibly even their fledgling dental practice; David Wielechowski is a dentist and his wife is one of his assistants.

 

The Wielechowskis are accused of assaulting other hotel guests and throwing metal planters in the lobby of a Holiday Inn in suburban Pittsburgh on April 27. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 28.

 

The couple insist they are victims.

 

Christa Wielechowski said the fight began in the hallway outside their hotel room when she stuck out her backside and the drunken groom lightly tapped her rear with his foot. The bride said she also was intoxicated, tripped on her wedding gown and fell on her face. Her husband dropped four six-packs of beer on the floor.

 

Other hotel guests rushed over, thinking she had been assaulted and wanting to help, the bride said. She said she told them to leave her alone and that she was fine, but they exchanged profanities with the Wielechowskis.

 

A man then punched her husband in the face, she said, and the two sides erupted into an extended brawl, complete with kicking, biting, choking and stomping, that ended in the hotel lobby.

 

The Wielechowskis, who were legally married a month earlier and repeated their vows at a Pittsburgh reception hours before the fight, spent their wedding night in separate prison cells, the bride still in her gown.

 

Holding her husband's hand during the television interview, Christa Wielechowski said she would not put up with an abusive partner. Her husband still has a black eye and has a cast on his ankle.

 

Ross Township Police Sgt. William Barrett said some witnesses corroborated the couple's account, but he said those who intervened thought they were helping a woman in distress.

 

"Sometimes we have to apply some common sense," Barrett said. "Why would (the guests) attack these people? I think they were trying to help a woman who was struck. It wasn't like they were in an alley and they ran into some thugs. They were in a nice hotel with decent, upstanding people."