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For Lions fans, Sunday was a time to celebrate. The team beat the Los Angeles Rams 31-28 at Ford Field.
But for fans Brian Olszewski and Bethany Cousino, both 27, the good feelings were spoiled when they were both robbed and assaulted near the stadium hours after the game. Olszewski is a season ticket holder. It was Cousino's first game.
Dave Birkitt of the Detroit Free Press reports that the two fans were leaving a friend's place in Cadillac Square hours after the game and returning to their car near Ford Field when they were approached by two men in hoodies.
The Freep reports:
Olszewski said one of the men pulled a gun on him, hit him above his right eye and demanded money. Cousino said she did not see a weapon, but the men punched her three times in the face and pulled her hair after she tried to flee the scene.
The assailants, who were not immediately apprehended, took both victims' cell phones and about $160 in cash.
"It's the scariest moment I've ever been through in my life," Olszewski told the Freep. "I've never been that close to dying. All that guy could have done was pull the trigger, I could have been dead. I value life and love life so much, and you always wonder what's it going to be like before you die, and I really thought that was it. I was laying on that ground thinking, 'This is it. I'm going to die. This is how my family's going to have to deal with me dying.'"
