VIA: Kurt Paschke served three years in a state prison back in the 1990s when he was convicted of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old during a fight behind a pizza parlor in Sayville, N.Y.
The Gang Green goon who was videoed slugging a female New England Patriots fan in the face after the Jets’ upset victory is not just a pugnacious superfan — he’s a killer.
Kurt Paschke served three years in a state prison back in the 1990s when he was convicted of fatally stabbing 17-year-old Henri Ferrer during a fight behind a pizza parlor in Sayville, L.I.
The unmasking of Paschke as the attacker of the woman — identified by sources as a Boston-area resident named Jaclyn Nugent — freaked out Ferrer’s family.
The man in question, a Jets fanatic who works as a bartender, wears a Wayne Chrebet jersey.
They have long believed that Paschke was allowed to plea to a lesser crime and given just three years in prison because his father, also named Kurt, was a Suffolk County cop.
“He’s dangerous and he thinks he’s untouchable because he’s the son of a police officer,” said a Ferrer relative so frightened she pleaded not to be identified. “He got away with murder.”
“Anybody else would probably get arrested for that fight” at the Jets game, added Ferrer’s still-grieving 78-year-old father, Robert. “As far as I'm concerned, he should spent quite a few years in jail. That's what he deserves.”
Despite video showing him hitting a female Patriots supporter, Paschke makes an anti-bullying proclamation on his Facebook page.
Paschke, also 17, had just graduated from Sachem High School in nearby Ronkonkoma when he crossed paths on a hot June night in 1992 with Ferrer of Bay Shore, LI.
Paschke’s lawyers insisted he resorted to the knife after he already was badly beaten.
Behind bars, Paschke became buddies with Marty Tankleff, whose conviction for killing his parents was overturned in 2008, according to various accounts of that sensational case.
This Jets mobile van owned by super-fan Kurt Paschke has got a Jets license plate, hubcaps, mud flaps and headlights.
Paschke’s dad was one of the people who pushed to get Tankleff’s conviction overturned.
But Paschke’s mom did not bring up her son’s sordid past when she sat down with a Daily News reporter on Monday to defend her son.
Instead, Colleen Paschke portrayed her strapping son as her protector from a nasty woman who flicked blood at her in a parting gesture of contempt.
Colleen Paschke portrayed her strapping son as her protector from a nasty woman who flicked blood at her in a parting gesture of contempt.
“He’s the victim, really,” she said her Holbrook, L.I. home, where a half-eaten Jets-themed birthday cake for her boy sat on the counter. “He was just concerned for his mother and himself.”
While Momma Paschke spoke, her son who turns 39 on Friday was hiding out across the street in a house he rents.
Paschke’s mom said her boy — a season ticket holder — normally brings his dad to the games. She went this time because she is a breast cancer survivor and this is the month for raising awareness about the dreaded disease.
Said Ward Roser, 52, of Selden, N.Y., “it looks like the girl went after him, not the other way around. He would never hit a lady.”
But from the the start of the game to the finish, Colleen Paschke said they were tormented by a pack of obnoxious Patriots fans, who had been especially abusive to two of Paschke’s pals.
Colleen Paschke said as they were leaving, the Pats fans — clearly enraged by their team’s stunning 30-27 loss to the Jets — jumped them.
That, she said, is when her son socked the young woman.
Kurt Paschke is a Jets fanatic, having been introduced to his love of the team by his grandmother.
“He was just hitting back to defend himself,” she said. “It wasn't done deliberately. If you see the video, they just went wild.”
Momma Paschke, who is 62, said the fight broke up on its own.
Kurt Paschke’s mom sees it differently, saying that the other folks “went wild.”
"They all split up,” she said. “We were trying to get away from one another.”
But one of the fleeing Pats women gave her a parting gift.
“She wiped the blood (off her face) and threw it at me,” she said.
Paschke’s mom did not bring up her son’s sordid past when she sat down with a Daily News reporter on Monday to defend her son.
Paschke’s friends defended him as a “nice guy,” noting that one of him most recent postings on Facebook is an anti-bullying message.
“He would never go after anybody if there wasn’t a reason,” said Ward Roser, 52, of Selden, N.Y. “It looks like the girl went after him, not the other way around. He would never hit a lady.”
Video footage posted on Deadspin.com, however, showed a lout wearing a green Wayne Chrebet jersey and camouflage pants punching a woman in the face in a post-game skirmish at MetLife Stadium.
Paschke was questioned after the incident by New Jersey State Police.
Nugent’s aunt said she’s not the kind of girl who would start a fight with anybody.
“I love her dearly,” Mary Ellen Nugent of Framingham, Mass., said. “I can’t say any more.”
Paschke was questioned after the incident by New Jersey State Police.
Paschke’s dad, Kurt, a retired Suffolk County police officer, was one of the people who pushed to get Tankleff’s conviction overturned.
The Jets also declined to comment on Paschke’s predicament.
Meanwhile, the puncher was getting socked by criticism on Twitter.
“Leave it to a Jets fan to punch a chick in the face after a game,” wrote one. “You guys can’t handle a win?”
Others were not as quick to condemn the Jets slugger, noting that it appeared the woman actually attacked him.
“1. I hate the jets 2. Guy is a drunk moron 3. Blond ran at hit and hit him first, she deserved the punch in the face!” another person weighed in.
Paschke is the owner of the Jets Mobile, a van he and his 62-year-old dad turned into a green and white homage to his favorite team — and which he uses to tailgate at Jets home games.
It’s got a Jets license plate, hubcaps, mud flaps and headlights.
Roser said it's such a familiar sight in the stadium parking lot that even Jets owner Woody Johnson has clambered inside to check out the custom Jets-embroidered seats and the Jets-themed curtains Paschke’s mom made for him.
In an interview with Newsday three years ago, Paschke said the van that cost him $3,000 on eBay and is a labor of love.
“There’s always something being done to this bus,” he said. “It’s an ongoing project.”
Paschke, who sports Jets tatoos on his right leg and thigh, also described how he was indoctrinated into the Cult of the Jets by his grandmother. She made him listen to a recording the Super Bowl III, which remains the only superbowl victory for the Jets.
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