A flipped car and a man’s Uptown stabbing were two unresolved crimes from this year’s Athens Halloween Block Party left to the Athens Police Department to solve.
As of Monday, no one had been arrested in either case, and the car flipping case has already been closed.
But even though the case of the flipped car has been closed, it’s the stabbing — which occurred at 3:29 a.m. on Oct. 27 outside of Broney’s Alumni Grill, 7 W. Carpenter St. — that is much closer to resolution.
Police have two suspects, according to the initial report from APD. Citing section 2907.11 of the Ohio Revised Code — the statute dealing with suppression of names of victims and offenders and the details of some alleged offenses—police redacted the names of the victim and suspects.
The victim, a 21-year-old white man, is described in the report as having suffered a “severe laceration.” He is listed as a resident but not a student at Ohio University. He reported his attacker as a stranger.
The charge on the report is felonious assault, a second-degree felony that carries a jail sentence of two to eight years, according to the Ohio Revised Code.
Police recovered a knife and a pair of camo brass knuckles used in the attack at the scene. One additional item was redacted from the report because police said it reveals identifying information about one of the suspects.
The report states that authorities located one of the suspects through Facebook and then on the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway. The second suspect was also located through the gateway.
With regard to the closed car flipping incident, Athens Police Chief Tom Pyle said the event was isolated, and there’s not much information to work with.
“I don’t know if people walking by flipped it or what, but I don’t think it was a car accident,” Pyle said. “I think it was a group of people who flipped it over. I doubt we will ever solve that because we have no suspects.”
The incident occurred at 116 W. Washington St. and involved a 1991 Mazda Miata, valued at $2,000, being flipped over. Christian Schieber of Whitehall, Ohio, filed the report.
The charge listed on the report is criminal damaging or endangering, a first-degree misdemeanor. The Ohio Revised Code states it’s illegal to knowingly or recklessly “cause, or create a substantial risk of physical harm to any property of another without the other person’s consent.”
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