CLEVELAND — A woman was taken to a hospital and needed several stitches after being struck with a flying beer can during a promotional event for Hulk Hogan's new beer brand at a Medina County bar, according to a police report.
The incident happened Monday while the former wrestling star was on a tour of Northeast Ohio promoting his "Real American Beer" brand.
According to a Medina Township Police Department incident report, officers were called to the Thirsty Cowboy bar on Medina Road just before 5:30 p.m. and were immediately notified by the victim's daughter that her 50-year-old mother had been hit in the head with a beer thrown from the stage and that she was bleeding.
Officers made contact with the 50-year-old and found her holding her head with a towel pressed to the wound. The woman told police she turned her head and dropped to the floor when the beer hit her.
According to the police report, witnesses first told police that the beer that hit the woman was thrown by Hogan himself, but other witnesses later told them it was a different crew member "who was throwing beers from the stage like a 'baseball pitch,' instead of tossing them."
"Due to conflicting information from numerous patrons, it is unclear who threw the beer that injured [the woman]," the report reads. Police said there were an "excessive" amount of people at the bar.
The woman's husband applied pressure and ice to the wound until paramedics arrived and her husband drove her to a Medina hospital for treatment.
The woman's daughter told police that her mother received nine stitches in her head near her hairline and that the family was watching for concussion symptoms. She also clarified that they were still unsure of who threw the beer that injured her mother, but that they reached out to a lawyer in hopes of obtaining closed-circuit television footage that could shed more light on the incident.
3News has reached out to representatives for Hogan's Real American Beer brand for comment.
