News brief: Baseball bat attack suspects still at large

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Nobody has been arrested following the weekend baseball bat beating of a 40-year-old man by a group of people in Centralia.

Centralia police detectives don’t even know how the victim is doing.

Detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald said the man was conscious and able to speak to an officer, but said he didn’t want to, when asked to give a taped statement.

Without the victim’s cooperation, detectives can’t get his medical information from the hospital, Fitzgerald said today.

Police were called at 3:36 a.m. on Sunday, not by the victim, but by a friend who said he just wanted him to get some medical help. The friend said the 40-year-old was attacked earlier at West Fourth Street and Washington Avenue, Fitzgerald said.

Officers and aid responded to that call, to the 200 block of North Ash Street. The victim, who has a Chehalis address, had been repeatedly struck in the head and body by as many as five individuals, according to police.

“He told the officer he’d been jumped, and it was in retaliation for something to do with his ex-girlfriend,” Fitzgerald said.

The person who phoned for help left the scene, he said. Detectives know the victim was transported by AMR to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.

But without his cooperation, detectives don’t know much more, and there’s not much more they can do, the sergeant indicated.

“We know it was a group of people, he may have known some of them, he was not sure,” he said.
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For background, read “News brief: Violent Halloween night in Centralia puts one male in hospital” from Sunday November 1, 2015, here

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2 Responses to “News brief: Baseball bat attack suspects still at large”

  1. Free Air says:

    Unless it was a domestic situation.

  2. BobbyinLC says:

    If the victim does not want to cooperate move on. No victim no crime.