New England News
Rolling Stones fan who fell from rafters may face charges
09/09/2005
BOSTON - The Rolling Stones fan who climbed into the rafters at last month's Fenway Park concert may be facing charges.
An application ws been filed in Boston Municipal Court on Thursday against 20-year-old Claire O'Leary. Investigators are looking to charge her with disturbing a public assembly.
Home video cameras and cell phones appear to have caught her in the ceiling of the right field grandstands, under the retired numbers and the Budweiser sign.
Officials are not certain exactly how the suspect allegedly climbed into the rafters. Police say she hung from the rafters for as long as 20 minutes before she was spotted by security. They managed to clear out the sections underneath her as she hung precariously - nearly losing her pants - off of a beam.
It was then that she took a 40-foot plunge into the grandstand seats below. The fall caused her to break both of her ankles and a wrist.