Boston, MA
Woman dies after medical episode at Boston nightclub, family says – The Boston Globe
The club, in a statement posted on Instagram on Tuesday, said it was “deeply saddened” by Colon’s death and that employees at the nightclub rushed to her aid.
“Our staff responded immediately and called emergency services while an off-duty EMT rendered first aid,” it said. “We are cooperating fully with all inquiries from law enforcement and city officials who are reviewing this medical episode.”
When police arrived at the Warrenton Street venue, they found a person lying on the dance floor, unresponsive and without a pulse, according to an incident report. They began performing chest compressions with the help of a cashier at the club who said she worked as an EMT.
Police said in the report that the large crowd inside the club did not comply with orders to give space to emergency medical personnel. Eventually, officers ordered the club to shut down and told patrons to leave immediately.
The woman, whose age was not disclosed, was then taken to Tufts Medical Center, police said.
Colon’s sister, Angelica Colon, wrote on social media Sunday that the club failed to immediately call 911 after being told about the medical emergency. She said only a few people at the club showed any “real concern,” while other patrons and staff “acted like nothing was happening.”
“My sister collapsed in the middle of the club,“ she wrote. ”I tried to lift her myself and couldn’t. I was screaming at the top of my lungs and was ignored. The music was only stopped for two minutes, then turned right back on — as if her life didn’t matter.”
Angelica Colon also couldn’t be reached for comment on Tuesday.
Anastaiya Colon, who was at the club to celebrate her sister Angelica’s birthday, had smoked before arriving and had “a few drinks” at the bar, according to the police report. Drug use was not suspected as a factor in the medical episode, according to the report.
Angelica Colon said that, while her sister had a medical condition, “that does not excuse what happened.” She said in the post that she was considering legal action against the club’s owners.
“A business that refuses to act during a medical emergency does not deserve to operate,” she wrote. “If this could happen to my sister, it could happen to anyone.”
“She was the greatest mother to our son and her daughter,” Stackhouse wrote. “Wherever I fell, she compensated and gave me so much more grace than I deserve.”
Icon is operated by Pasha Entertainment, which also runs the nightclubs Venu and Hava, as well as prominent restaurants such as Ghost Light Tavern and Kava Neo-Taverna, according to the company’s website.
“Our thoughts and condolences are with the individual’s family and loved ones,” the club wrote.
Last year, the city’ licensing board reviewed a 2023 incident at the club in which a woman was punched and thrown to the ground by another patron. Icon staff did not call police during the altercation, which the club’s director of security admitted was a “lapse in judgment.”
The woman who was punched later sued the club for overserving her attacker; Icon was ordered to pay $30,000 in damages, according to court records.
Camilo Fonseca can be reached at camilo.fonseca@globe.com. Follow him on X @fonseca_esq and on Instagram @camilo_fonseca.reports.
The Boston Celtics have built their teams in a number of ways over the decades, but few if any methods have born more fruit than through the NBA draft. The best players to suit up for the Celtics have, by and large, come to Boston either through being taken directly in the annual event, or via trades made that night.
And it is not just the top stars who have been picked up by the Celtics via the draft. Countless members of the storied ball club’s alumni have been taken by the team via that annual event, and some schools are better represented than others. We can see blue blood programs and some very small schools both delivering top talent to Boston’s rosters over the years, so we decided to take a look at which players came from which schools overall.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Celtics out of TCU.
Dick O’Neal – center
Draft year and position: 2nd round (8th pick, 16th overall), 1957 NBA Draft
Seasons at TCU: 3
Seasons played with Celtics: did not make the team
Gary Turner – forward
Draft year and position: 3rd round (8th pick, 28th overall), 1966 NBA Draft
Seasons at TCU: 3
Seasons played with Celtics: did not make the team
Desmond Bane – guard
Draft year and position: 1st round (30th pick, 30th overall), 2020 NBA Draft
Seasons at TCU: 4
Seasons played with Celtics: did not make the team
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
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Although the Reagans might not be in the same city anymore, Blue Bloods showrunner Kevin Wade supports the direction of the CBS spin-off.
In a recent conversation with Bill O’Reilly, the Golden Globe nominee rejected the No Spin News host’s take that the offshoot is a “woke version” of the original, noting that he’s “happy for them.”
O’Reilly argued, “Boston Blue is woke. I mean, they got every ethnicity in the world coming in there. I don’t know who’s who, I can’t keep track of where these people are from and what they’re doing. Whereas Blue Bloods was Irish Catholic traditional down the line.
“So, do you think that the suits in Hollywood said, ‘Enough of this traditional stuff. It might be working, but we can make a woke version of this and make just as as much money’?” he asked.
Wade praised Donnie Wahlberg for doing “a terrific job” in reprising his role as Danny Reagan, adding, “And I’m going to be on the side of my colleagues here and go, anytime something is providing jobs for actors and the huge amount of people that are employed as crew, I’m happy for them, and I root for it.”
With Blue Bloods, Wade also didn’t see there being “a political agenda,” because although the show “was perceived as a maybe a right-leaning show—it was certainly about a family of white Roman Catholic Brooklyn cops, and cops and law enforcement in general tend to lean to the right.
“If we had a little secret sauce, it was that when we built a soapbox for one side, we tried to make sure to build a soapbox of equal dimensions for the other side of an issue,” explained Wade. “We had to take on a lot of issues, and we chose to take on a lot of issues during the run of the show. I think that if there was a reason for its success … it was that people didn’t feel preached to. They didn’t feel like we were telling them what to think, or how to think, or what side was the right side.”
Following Blue Bloods‘ 2024 finale, Wahlberg reprised his role as Det. Danny Reagan in the spin-off Boston Blue, which premiered last October, with the role of Danny’s Sean recast with Mika Amonsen after Andrew Terraciano played him in the parent series.
Also starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Ernie Hudson, Maggie Lawson, Gloria Reuben and Marcus Scribner, Boston Blue received an early renewal for Season 2 in December, set to return on Oct. 9.
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