A San Francisco 49ers fan and Oakland restaurant owner remains in a medically induced coma following an apparent beating outside of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California during last weekend's NFC Championship Game.
Mistura, the Peruvian fusion restaurant on Piedmont Avenue that Daniel Luna owns, remains closed while Luna, 40, is hospitalized at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Neighbors are stunned and hoping for the best.
"They're really nice people," Dance Doyle, a customer at Mistura since it opened in 2015, said of Luna and restaurant staff during an interview with KCBS Radio on Thursday. "When you sit down, they kind of go above and beyond."
Luna attended the game alone and wore a 49ers jersey, according to the Inglewood Police Department. Paramedics discovered him about 30 minutes after kickoff in one of the stadium parking lots, and emergency room personnel told police that Luna sustained wounds consistent with a beating. Luna’s wife is with him in the hospital.
Police said they have no information to indicate Luna was targeted because he was a 49ers fan. SoFi Stadium officials said in an email to KCBS Radio they are cooperating with police, who want to look at security footage to determine what happened to Luna.
The story sounds similar to that of Bryan Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan who was beaten outside of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Opening Day in 2011. Stow sustained a skull fracture, brain damage and was comatose for nine months.
Luna’s restaurant was closed on Wednesday and then again on Thursday, during what would normally be a busy lunch hour. Mistura’s website says it is “temporarily closed” without listing a reason.
“I just hope he pulls through, and I hope he heals well,” Doyle said. “Since the restaurant has come to Piedmont Avenue, they’ve become, like, part of the Piedmont Avenue scene here.”
A scene where customers are treated like family.
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