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Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is accused of approaching and assaulting a delivery driver while intoxicated before the driver then stabbed him multiple times in what he described as self-defense, according to a court filing from Indianapolis prosecutors.

Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said that the incident “should have never happened.”

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“What began as a disagreement between a 38-year-old former professional athlete and a 69-year-old man should not have escalated into violence or left anyone seriously injured,” Mears said in a statement Sunday.

The incident first became public when the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department reported that Sanchez had been stab

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