INDIANAPOLIS — A bloody Mark Sanchez was seen staggering along the street clutching his wound after being stabbed in the side, dramatic new footage from the Saturday attack shows.
The former Jets quarterback, 38, is shown putting a hand on what appears to be a bloody wound, just below his chest as he walks down a street in Indianapolis, according to video obtained by The Post.
Blood appears to have soaked through his shirt.
The footage was recorded just minutes after the brawl just after midnight Saturday, which resulted in a 69-year-old grease truck driver stabbing Sanchez multiple times after Sanchez attacked him, according to authorities.
Sanchez stumbled from an alleyway where the fight happened into a nearby bar, where the owner called paramedics.
He was pictured lying shirtless on a gurney as EMTs rushed him to a waiting ambulance, TMZ reported.
Footage also shows the truck driver sitting upright with a towel covering his face as he was led to an emergency vehicle
Timeline of the Mark Sanchez stabbing and arrest
Friday Night
- Mark Sanchez, 38, is in Indianapolis to serve as a Fox Sports analyst for the Raiders-Colts game on Sunday. He’s observed acting “erratically,” doing “wind sprints” in the alley behind Loughmiller’s Pub and Eatery in the downtown.
Just after midnight
- A grease truck driver picking up cooking oil from a nearby hotel parks his truck in the loading dock, blocking the alley where Sanchez is doing sprints.
- Sanchez approaches the driver to try to get him to move and eventually gets into an altercation where he body-slams him toward the wall and then to the ground.
- The driver sprayed Sanchez with mace or pepper spray, but the former NFL quarterback continues attacking him.
- The driver pulls a knife and stabs Sanchez two or three times in the chest, believing, “This guy is trying to kill me.”
- Sanchez turns around and heads up the alley.
12:30 a.m.
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers respond to a report of a person shot. They locate Sanchez in Loughmiller’s Pub.
- It’s later reported that Sanchez is uncooperative with responding officers. He tells the detective he can only remember “grabbing for a window” and nothing else about the incident.
- Sanchez is rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
- The driver also suffered “significant injuries,” including lacerations to his cheek and jaw, with a cut that allegedly went through his cheek and hit his tongue.
Saturday
- Sanchez undergoes surgery for stab wounds to the chest, and is stable.
- He is arrested at the hospital and charged with misdemeanor counts of battery resulting in injury, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle.
Sunday
- Sanchez is discharged from the hospital Sunday morning and transferred directly to central booking at Marion County Jail, where he reportedly posts his $300 cash bond.
Monday
The Fox Sports analyst now faces upgraded felony charges after initially being rushed to the hospital in a critical condition following the incident.
He was previously charged on Sunday with several misdemeanors but, after new details were released about the extent of his victim’s injuries, as well as his age, prosecutors decided to charge Sanchez with a Level 5 felony battery of causing serious injury.
If convicted, he faces up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The scene of the grisly incident, just a stone’s throw from the Indiana State Capitol in downtown “Naptown,” has already become a dark tourist attraction.
Visitors were seen snapping pictures of the trail of dried blood leading out of the alleyway to the nearby Loughmiller’s Pub & Eatery, where Sanchez staggered into after being stabbed.
“Nothing interesting happens down here,” one local told The Post, while looking at the blood spatters on the sidewalk.”It’s pretty f–king crazy,” her coworker added.
Sympathy for the former Jet was in short supply on Monday. “It sounds like he deserved it. He beat up a 69-year-old man,” one woman said outside the bar.
“I’m shocked that people still act like that,” a Westin worker in the alley where the attack happened said. “I’m just shocked that we can’t be cordial enough to let someone do their job. I’m pretty sure the waste management guy was just trying to do his job and go home.”
“The infamous butt fumble,” one Hoosier rubber-necker commented, staring at the blood stains.
Accounts from witnesses, the alleged victim and the police investigation all paint Sanchez as the aggressor, after the driver told cops he stabbed the retired pro athlete in self-defense.
“This guy is trying to kill me,” the truck driver said he recalled thinking, according to a probable cause affidavit released on Sunday.
Surveillance footage collected by cops shows Sanchez jogging back and forth in an alley behind a bar in Downtown Minneapolis before approaching a box truck that was backing into a loading bay.
The driver told police that Sanchez forced his way into the box truck and ordered him to move his vehicle, claiming to have spoken to the hotel manager.
Confused, the driver, who had taken out his hearing aids due to the noise of the truck, leaned closer to try and hear Sanchez, and reported that his breath smelled of alcohol and he was slurring his words, according to the affidavit.
Sanchez allegedly blocked the driver from calling his supervisor, before the fight broke out in the alley.
A witness reported seeing the pair circling each other, and thinking they were friends, before realizing that they were filming each other on their cell phones.
At some point, Sanchez allegedly body-slammed the truck driver into a wall and then threw him to the ground, at which point the driver said he pepper-sprayed the 6-foot-2, 230-pound athlete.
Here’s the latest on the Mark Sanchez stabbing and arrest:
When Sanchez continued approaching, the driver said he pulled out his knife and stabbed the former QB several times in the chest and torso.
Sanchez staggered off and ended up going into a neighboring bar, where the bartender helped to patch up the bloodied ex-NFL star before the ambulance arrived.
Gruesome images show the extent of the injuries suffered by the grease truck driver. He was allegedly stabbed through his cheek during the fight, before the blade hit his tongue. Sanchez was described as “uncooperative” at the scene by Indianapolis police. Interviewed later in the hospital, he said he couldn’t remember who attacked him or where the incident took place.
The ex-USC quarterback, who was in Indianapolis to report on Sunday’s clash between the Colts and the Raiders, reportedly said he only remembered “grabbing for a window,” according to the affidavit.
He is due in court again on Tuesday.
