Week In Review: Holbrook Man Punches Woman At Jets Game, Sachem Alum's TedX Talk Online

Holbrook Man Punches Woman at Jets Game

A Holbrook man has been caught on video punching a woman in the face following Sunday's Jets game at MetLife Stadium. 

Kurt Paschke, who served three years in prison in the 1990s for a fatal stabbing behind a Sayville pizzeria, is seen on the video hitting the woman during a fight in the concourse after the Jets overtime victory. 

Paschke and the woman he struck, Jaclyn Nugent, 26, of Boston, were both charged with assault and disorderly conduct by New Jersey State Police Tuesday. Two of Nugent's friends also face the same charges. 

Police say Nugent and her friend Amanda MacDowell, 25, of Marlborough, Mass., punched and kicked Paschke in the body and head before the Paschke struck Nugent in the face. 

“The women were the aggressors,’’ a law-enforcement source told the New York Post. 

Paschke's family members have rallied to his defense. 

"He’s the victim, really,” Colleen Paschke told the New York Daily News of her son, a Sachem High School graduate. “He was just concerned for his mother and himself.”

Kurt Paschke father, Kurt Paschke Sr., a retired Suffolk County cop, told Newsday that Nugent had been verbally abusive to his son and his friends during the game. 

Kurt Paschke Sr. said Nugent "jumped" a couple who were at the game with his son as they were making their way out of the stadium, according to Newsday. That's when he says his son stepped in to protect his friends and his mother, who was nearby. 

"This girl was charging him and punching him. She's no lady," Kurt Paschke Sr. told Newsday. "She was the aggressor. If she's gonna start a fight, what is my son gonna do?"

Sachem Alum Talks Love Of Science At TedXSBU

Sachem alum Ruchi Shah's recent talk at TEDxSBU is now streaming on the TEDxTalks Youtube channel.

Shah presented her experience creating a mosquito repellant during high school, for which she ultimately won a $25,000 scholarship last spring for creating.

Shah spoke about challenges she faced in creating the repellant, being supported by her science research teacher as a mentor and her love of science.

"...You can start with a problem, or a question that you have, and through failures and through mistakes and through a brainstorming process you can come up with a tangible product," Shah said during her talk.

Shah's full talk, which clocks in at 10:16, can be viewed onYoutube and in the media gallery of this post.

Police Nab Holbrook Man for Attempted Robbery of Islandia Eatery

A Holbrook man was arrested Tuesday evening for attempting to rob a local Subway restaurant. 

Police charged Piccola, 23, of Murial St. in Holbrook with first-degree attempted robbery and possession of a hypodermic instrument. He is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Wednesday.

Two Holbrook Sisters Have Babies Within Two Weeks

Sisters Josephine Scalone, 33, of Holbrook, gave birth to Valentina on September 27; Catherine Ahrens, 35, also of Holbrook, delivered Madeline on October 11 and third sister Angela Granzino, 38, of Mastic, welcomed Francesco on September 9.

All three sisters gave birth at the Southside Hospital in Bay Shore.