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Police investigating after Suffolk student reports assault by intoxicated young men
The incident took place Saturday night.
A group of young men reportedly attacked a Suffolk University student on Saturday night, hitting him in the head with a glass bottle before fleeing the scene.
According to a Boston police report, officers were called to an assault and battery at 140 Tremont St. at around 11 p.m. Police found the student bleeding from the left side of his head.
The student told police that he was walking down Tremont Street toward Boylston Street when a group of five intoxicated men walking in the opposite direction crossed his path. One of the men bumped into him, almost causing him to fall. In return, the student said he pushed him back.
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The five men then surrounded the student, according to the report, starting to push him and they broke a glass bottle over his head before placing him into a headlock that caused him to fall to the ground.
The student told police that the men then took off running.
The student said he did not know which man struck him with the bottle because it happened so quickly and he could not see because of the blood streaming down his face. He mentioned that the men looked like teenagers.
Officers spoke with two witnesses at the scene who told them that they did not see the attack, but they heard a guy yelling and glass shattering, and saw the five men running up Tremont Street toward Winter Place.
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First responders transported the student to the hospital.
Security footage later obtained by police shows five men, all about 20 years old, who are clean-shaven.
As of Monday morning, police said they had made no arrests and the incident remains under investigation.
The student told Boston 25 News that he was walking home when the attack happened. All he remembers is “waking up and seeing blood and arms around my throat.”
The student told the station that he was hit over the head with a beer bottle, choked, and beaten up to the point where he blacked out and suffered a concussion. Strangers called 911 following the incident.
He told Boston 25, “I hope that the cops find them, and I’m going to press charges if they do find them because that’s not okay.”
Boston police are asking the public to help identify the individuals shown in an image they released of the suspects. The police are asking anyone with information to contact District A-1 detectives at 617-343-4571.
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