Few details known about suspect who allegedly knocked victim out
A man was struck in the head and knocked unconscious in an alleged aggravated assault in the Vista early Friday morning.
The victim, a 26-year-old man, was leaving The Big Ugly, a restaurant and bar on Senate Street, when an unknown man hit him and knocked him to the ground at around 1 a.m. Friday, according to an incident report.
A friend drove him to Richland Memorial Hospital, and a police officer noticed he had a broken jaw and cuts on his head.
The victim had gone to the restaurant with an acquaintance to settle a debt, and they drank together, according to the report.
Little is known about the suspect. A police report describes a white man of unknown age, with unknown hair and eye color, but according to the report, a number of the victim’s friends texted him that someone was bragging about the assault after he left. That man’s name was redacted.
The incident occurred less than a month after a man in his 20s was shot in the Vista trying to fight off a pair of attempted robbers on Lincoln Street near its intersection with Gervais.