Charges pending after fatal bar fight

FOR THE RECORD

A deck headline below the “Charges pending after fatal bar fight” headline in Tuesday’s Daily Pilot should have said that district attorney’s prosecutors may file charges related to the death of a Tustin man against two brothers. Prosecutors did not file charges Tuesday.

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A Tustin man has died from injuries he received during a weekend altercation at a Newport Center bar, police said.

Jason Boozer, 26, was taken off life support Sunday at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, where he was being treated for major head trauma. Authorities said he was injured early Saturday after a Burbank man punched him in the face, knocking him over and causing him to fall and hit his head.

Two brothers were arrested in connection with the alleged fight early Saturday at Muldoon’s Irish Pub & Restaurant. Brian Weiner, 35, of Burbank, was being held Monday on $100,000 bail at the Newport Beach city jail. His brother Marc Weiner, 31, also of Burbank, was released on $25,000 bail Saturday.

Police arrested both brothers on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm. The brothers are scheduled to appear in court today, although Orange County District Attorney’s officials had not determined Monday what charges would be filed.

Few new details of the incident have been released, although family members say Boozer had likely been defending a female acquaintance during the incident ? not his girlfriend, as previously reported.

Boozer’s father Randall Boozer said his son had been out with friends late Friday night to celebrate a new job. Apparently the Weiner brothers had some type of dispute with a female in Jason Boozer’s party, when Boozer intervened and was injured.

“His girlfriend was at home, waiting for him to call,” Randall Boozer said.

Jason Boozer, a coordinator working for realty firm CB Richard Ellis, had been out celebrating a recent promotion to the company’s Newport Beach office, family members said.

“He was so thrilled to get the job and told me that maybe next year that we would see his name on one of their signs,” his mother Marlys Thomas said.

Family members said he was an Orange County native and an El Toro High School graduate.

“What I do know is that Jason does not have a mean bone in his body,” Thomas said. “He is the kind of person that would always do what he could to help others.”