Spectator Dies After Melee at Middle School Basketball Game

Spectator Dies After Melee at Middle School Basketball Game
A basketball goes through a hoop in a file photo. Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images
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ALBURGH, Vt.—A brawl broke out among spectators at a middle school basketball game in northern Vermont, and a 60-year-old man who participated in the fight died, police said.

State troopers were called to the Alburgh Community Education Center just before 7 p.m. Tuesday after a report of a large fight involving spectators during a seventh- and eighth-grade boys basketball game between Alburgh and St. Albans.