A teenager in Prospect Park dropped dead while fleeing the scene of a fight where a gang of teens had upped the ante of a scuffle by showing up with a man twice their age who then got involved. The Daily News reports that 18-year Sharif Abdallah confronted a group of teenagers after they called a female friend of his fat and ugly. A minor confrontation escalated when the gang of mocking teens returned to the park with a man in his 30s or 40s, who put one of Abdallah's friend in a headlock and engaged in what police called "fisticuffs, but nothing serious." As Abdallah ran away from the altercation, he collapsed at the 15th Street exit of the park from what friends believed to be a heart murmur. He was rushed by paramedics to Methodist Hospital, but pronounced dead soon after. Police are still investigating the incident that led to the death of the senior at Xaverian High School. A friend told the News, "He was the funniest kid in the world. He was an artist; he could draw anything in his mind."