Details Begin to Emerge in Case of Man's Post-USC Football Game Death

Details about the 2010 fight in traffic near Williams-Brice Stadium that left a 20-year-old man dead after a University of South Carolina football game are starting to emerge.

During the first day of the trial of Curtis Simms, 27, who is accused of causing the death of 20-year-old Allen Gasque, lawyers on both sides of the case presented different versions of what happened that day, according to a report in The State. 

Simms is charged with involuntary manslaughter and breach of peace. 

According to evidence presented Tuesday in court Simms got out of a pickup truck to confront Gasque, The State reports. Gasque had called at him from the back of a friend's pickup truck where he was riding.

Gasque then fell out of his friend's truck, or was pulled out by Simms, according to The State, and then run over by his friend's truck. 

Prosecutors claim that Simms started the chain of events that led to Gasque's death, according to The State. 

But Simms' defense attorney paints a different picture. He blames Gasque's death on the careless driving of his friend, according to The State. 

"When fistfights occur, nobody expects that somebody’s going to die,” he said, according to The State.

Read more about the first day of trial from The State.