A Palos Verdes Estates man pleaded not guilty today to assaulting a man in a parking lot at Dodger Stadium after a Dodgers-Mets game last October.
Michael Rae Papayans, 27, is charged with a felony count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, with an allegation that he caused great bodily injury.
Papayans is accused of punching a 50-year-old man in the head, knocking him unconscious after the Oct. 9 game. As the man fell to the ground, he struck his head on the pavement, causing him to sustain serious head injuries, prosecutors said.