The Park really was too much for Skins’ Brandon Banks that night
Shortly before 1:00 AM on Saturday, January 12, Washington Redskins wide receiver and kick returned Brandon Banks tweeted “Park gonna b to much for me tonight.”
Little did he know, it actually was too much for him and he would end up in a hospital bed with stab wounds.
He sustained the knife wounds after coming to the aid of his childhood friend, Christopher Nixon, who got into a fight with a man identified as 24-year-old Jason Shorter of Lanham, Maryland. The incident started out as a verbal confrontation between Nixon
and Shorter outside of The Park, a nightclub on 14th Street Northwest in Washington, D.C. According to a police report, Nixon and Shorter were first having a verbal confrontation when Shorter withdrew a folding knife and held it behind his back
while striking at Nixon with his fist.
At that point, Banks and a bouncer tried to break up the fight when Shorter started stabbing Banks and Nixon. Banks sustained a knife wound to his upper left abdomen while Nixon suffered severe injuries to his face and body. Banks required stitches and was
expected to be released soon while Nixon was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
After the incident, Banks’ agent, James Gould, said that Banks “is doing fine.” He expected him to be discharged from the hospital within 24 hours of the incident. However, the injury turned out to be more serious that first thought. Doctors inserted a tube
into his chest to keep his left lung from collapsing after tests showed that his lung was punctured.
"The knife nicked his lung, creating a pneunomothorax condition," Gould said. "He still has a chest tube inserted, and it will remain until the wound heals and the lung remains inflated."
"We are hopeful that the tube will be removed by Friday, and if the lung does not respond, then a commonly performed procedure using a scope will be performed to repair the lung," Gould said in the statement. "Brandon should be released within 48 hours afterward.
We expect 100 percent recovery where he can resume his offseason training in two to four weeks."
Banks was an undrafted rookie in the 2010 NFL Draft when he was signed by the Redskins as a free agent. The first time he touched the ball in a professional game, he returned a punt 53 yards. The lightest player in the NFL at 150 pounds, he also recorded
a 96 yards kickoff return for a touchdown in a game.
Hopefully, Banks will be in full health again and an incident like Sean Taylor’s can be avoided. The Redskins’ free safety was shot in the leg during a burglary and died from the injury after losing a lot of blood and going into a coma. Doctors said that
he could have suffered brain damage from the blood loss and his heart stopped twice during emergency surgery. Taylor died on the morning of November 27, 2007 at the age of 24.
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