Suffolk County Police arrested Marc Dern, a Springs resident, and charged him with manslaughter in connection with the death last weekend of Kevin Somers.
Dern, 34, lives in the Lincoln Avenue house where police say Somers was when the two got into an “altercation” last Saturday night, February 5. An ambulance was called to the house which transported Somers, an Amagansett resident, to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.
Dern is charged with first degree manslaughter, a felony associated with an act that is intended to cause “injury” to a person but results in their death. It is punishable by up to 25 years in prison.
The two men worked together on the caddy staff at the Maidstone Club country club.
Dern is to be arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court on Friday because East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky recused himself from overseeing the case.
An Amagansett man died after being involved in what police described as “an altercation” on Saturday night, February 5, at a home in Springs.
Kevin Somers, 45, was pronounced dead at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital late Saturday night.
East Hampton Town Police and medical personnel were called to a home on Lincoln Avenue in Springs about 10:40 p.m. on Saturday. There, they found Somers unconscious from his injuries.
He was transported to the hospital via Springs Fire Department ambulance.
Suffolk County Police said that before his death, Somers had gotten in an altercation with another man, Marc Dern, an acquaintance who lives at the Lincoln Avenue house. Dern, 35, was not injured. Police have not filed any charges against him and have not offered any further description of the incident or Somers’s exact cause of death.
The Suffolk County Police Department’s homicide squad and East Hampton Town Police are investigating the incident.
County Police said over the weekend that an autopsy will be conducted by the Suffolk County medical examiner’s office, but have not announced any results from the analysis.
Somers, who grew up in East Hampton and was a longtime employee of the Maidstone Club, will be buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery on Sunday, February 13.
His family will hold a wake on Saturday, February 12, at Yardley & Pino Funeral Home from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
Staff Writer on Feb 11, 2022