Nearly 100 people attended a candlelight vigil Sunday night for 46-year-old Ricardo Portillo on the front lawn of his Salt Lake City home.

“He was a father, he was a friend, he was a grandfather; he left a whole family behind,” his 26-year-old daughter, Johana Portillo, said. “They should think before they do something stupid.”

According to accounts from a police report and witnesses, Portillo issued a yellow card to a 17-year-old goalie for pushing an opposing player. The teenager, who was much heavier than the referee, argued with Portillo, then punched him in the face.

Portillo is said to have seemed fine at first, but then felt dizzy. He sat down and started vomiting blood. By the time the police arrived, he was lying in the fetal position and complained of pain in his face and back. After arriving at a hospital, he slipped into a coma due to swelling in his brain, officials said.

The suspect in the case, whose name is withheld because he’s a minor, has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault, but authorities said they will consider additional charges in the wake of Portillo’s death.

No cause of death has been released, but an autopsy is planned.

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