Sportsman's Hall owner says incident didn't happen there
Hall gave aid to injured teen, but wasn't scene of fight
By Bob Allen
Posted 10/15/08
Tim Kaylor, owner of Sportsman’s Hall on Route 30, south of Hampstead, said this week that broadcast reports of an incident late Saturday near the popular roller skating rink unfairly painted his business as the scene of a crime.
Kaylor said he was disturbed over radio broadcasts stating that a juvenile had been stabbed at the roller rink on the evening of Oct. 11.
Kaylor insists the report got it wrong on two counts — first, there was no stabbing, though a teen was treated for a cut on his head from an unknown object; and second, the incident didn’t happen at Sportsman’s Hall.
“It happened along Route 30, somewhere north of here, but we don’t know where,” Kaylor said. “Four or five kids left here and went up the road. A while later one of the kids came back here and told us he’d been hit in the temple with something. So we put ice on his head and treated him and called 911.”
Cpl. Mike Hill, spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department, confirmed Kaylor’s account.
According to Hill, the incident occurred around 9:40 p.m. on Oct. 11, across Hanover Pike from the skate rink.
Hill said four juveniles, including the victim, got into an argument that turned into a physical altercation after they left the rink. The victim was hit in the head with either a rock or a stick. The victim returned to the parking lot of Sportsman’s Hall and asked for assistance.
The victim was transported to Carroll Hospital Center. The three suspects turned themselves in at the Baltimore County Police Department’s Garrison Precinct about an hour after the incident. They were charged with second-degree assault and released to their parents.
Even though the victim is on the mend, Kaylor is concerned that damage to Sportsman’s Hall’s image could linger.
“This is ridiculous,” said the owner a phone interview on Monday morning. “It’s almost like someone is trying to single-handedly destroy a business that we’ve worked so hard to rebuild.”
Sportsman’s Hall was built in 1957, burned down and was rebuilt in the early 1990s, then closed again in 2005 after the original owner died.
Kaylor bought the rink and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars refurbishing it before reopening it two and a half years later.
Kaylor said he was disturbed over radio broadcasts stating that a juvenile had been stabbed at the roller rink on the evening of Oct. 11.
Kaylor insists the report got it wrong on two counts — first, there was no stabbing, though a teen was treated for a cut on his head from an unknown object; and second, the incident didn’t happen at Sportsman’s Hall.
“It happened along Route 30, somewhere north of here, but we don’t know where,” Kaylor said. “Four or five kids left here and went up the road. A while later one of the kids came back here and told us he’d been hit in the temple with something. So we put ice on his head and treated him and called 911.”
Cpl. Mike Hill, spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department, confirmed Kaylor’s account.
According to Hill, the incident occurred around 9:40 p.m. on Oct. 11, across Hanover Pike from the skate rink.
Hill said four juveniles, including the victim, got into an argument that turned into a physical altercation after they left the rink. The victim was hit in the head with either a rock or a stick. The victim returned to the parking lot of Sportsman’s Hall and asked for assistance.
The victim was transported to Carroll Hospital Center. The three suspects turned themselves in at the Baltimore County Police Department’s Garrison Precinct about an hour after the incident. They were charged with second-degree assault and released to their parents.
Even though the victim is on the mend, Kaylor is concerned that damage to Sportsman’s Hall’s image could linger.
“This is ridiculous,” said the owner a phone interview on Monday morning. “It’s almost like someone is trying to single-handedly destroy a business that we’ve worked so hard to rebuild.”
Sportsman’s Hall was built in 1957, burned down and was rebuilt in the early 1990s, then closed again in 2005 after the original owner died.
Kaylor bought the rink and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars refurbishing it before reopening it two and a half years later.
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