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Family sues Brown Boxer Pub in patron's death

 
Published Sept. 17, 2014

The family of a man killed outside the Brown Boxer Pub & Grille in Clearwater Beach is suing the restaurant.

David McTamney, 51, was asked to leave the restaurant at 483 Mandalay Ave. on Oct. 14 for acting "intoxicated and disorderly," Clearwater police said last year.

Moments later, Paul Clarence Stucker, who was working as a bouncer at the Brown Boxer, grabbed McTamney and dragged him to the exit, according to records. Once outside, Stucker got on top of McTamney and maintained him in a chokehold for several minutes, records say.

As bystanders yelled at Stucker to leave him alone, Mc­Tamney turned blue and eventually stopped breathing. A Brown Boxer patron performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

McTamney, of Pennsylvania, was taken to Morton Plant Hospital, where he died later that morning, police said.

A complaint filed in the case claims that no Brown Boxer employee intervened to save McTamney's life. A Brown Boxer manager declined to comment.

Stucker, 43, was arrested in December on a manslaughter charge. He was released from the Pinellas County jail on $100,000 bail.