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KOLENOVIC TRIED TO STOP ARGUMENT
Mercury News Wire Services
Kemal Kolenovic, a middleweight boxer who emigrated from Montenegro, was killed outside a Bronx bar when he was struck by a car that drove onto the sidewalk, police and witnesses said.
The 28-year-old fighter was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital, police said.
Kolenovic was at a restaurant around 4 a.m. Sunday when several other men got into an argument. Kolenovic followed the men outside and, according to his uncle, tried to placate the other men.
One of the men involved in the quarrel got into a sport-utility vehicle and drove it onto the sidewalk, hitting Kolenovic, witnesses and police said. The driver then fled.
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