The Ventura County Medical Examiner has ruled the 69-year-old’s death as a homicide, with the cause of death blunt-force head injury.
A 50-year-old man from Moorpark is being investigated in the death of a Jewish man who died Monday after a confrontation during competing pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Thousand Oaks, authorities said.
Rabbi Mark Blazer shows on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 during a news conference the place where Paul Kessler, 69, who was Jewish and carrying an Israeli flag, was assaulted during a pro-Palestinian Israel-Hamas war protest in Westlake Village on Sunday. Paul Kessler, died from his injuries on Monday. Jonathan Oswaks, center, who joined Kessler in support of Israel and witnessed the attack, and Elan Carr, of the lsraeli American Council, also spoke.
Ventura County Chief Medical Examiner, Christopher Young, provided an update to the death of Paul Kessler at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Kessler, a 69-year-old man who died from his injuries Monday after an altercation at a pro-Israeli/pro-Palestinian event in Thousand Oaks.
During the protest, Oswaks said, the same man approached him with a megaphone and yelled into his ear before Oswaks told him to “back up.” The man was detained for several hours Monday while deputies searched his residence. He was not arrested. “Witness accounts indicated that Kessler was involved in a physical altercation with counter-protestor. During the altercation, Kessler fell backward and struck his head on the ground,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release.
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