More than a month after the incident, detectives in Pullman, Wash., are seeking information on an assault possibly involving University students.
On Jan. 20, after a men’s basketball game in which the University team played against Washington State University, several students from both schools went to Stubblefields, a Pullman bar in Adams Mall near the WSU campus. Just before the bar closed, three men who were standing near the mall entrance made a racial remark about an Asian man who was walking into the building, police said.
Later, in the downstairs area of Stubblefields, someone allegedly punched the man in the side of the face and broke his jaw.
The Pullman Police Department still doesn’t have a suspect identified, said PPD Detective Greg Umbright, and no one knows whether the racial comment and the punch were connected.
“According to a DJ, there were a number of Oregon fans in the bar,” Umbright said in an e-mail. “I don’t think that an Oregon student is the suspect of the assault, but maybe one of them saw it.”
Umbright requests that any University student who witnessed the punch or has any information on possible suspects call him at (509) 334-0802. Family and friends of the victim have set up a $5,000 reward fund for the person with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the assailant.
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