A University student was hospitalized during finals week after an altercation at a party left him unconscious, the Eugene Police Department said.
University sophomore Nicholas Chambers spent two nights at Sacred Heart Medical Center for treatment sustaining for a fractured skull, hemorrhaging in his head and severe bruising after several other men beat him near 1471 Patterson St., Chambers said.
“There’s a long list of all the damage,” Chambers said.
The incident, which occurred early in the morning June 16, began when Chambers and freshman Kyra Bennett got into a dispute with a female party-goer. Chambers said the girl immediately asked the two to leave, and he asked for a phone to call for a ride, he said.
“We couldn’t leave without having someone pick us up because (Bennett) was in no condition to leave, and I wasn’t going to leave her,” Chambers said.
When the girl refused, she and Bennett argued and Chambers put his hand on Bennett to try to calm them down. When he turned around to the other girl, he said, she slapped him.
Witnesses told police that Chambers slapped the girl, according to a police press release.
Chambers denies retaliating.
“Whether or not I slapped her back is up in the air,” Chambers said. “I still say I didn’t.”
Chambers said he was immediately punched from behind by another man after the incident occurred.
“Some guy just basically blindsided punched me,” he said.
Chambers was then beaten by several others. He said he was thrown onto a car, slammed into the windshield and then thrown back on the pavement during the altercation.
“The punches started to take their toll, and I was just blacking out,” Chambers said.
When police and an ambulance arrived a short time later, partygoers scattered and Chambers was left unconscious in the street. He was immediately taken to intensive care at Sacred Heart, then spent Saturday in the neuroscience department, he said.
No charges have been filed as a result of the incident. EPD Sgt. Kathy Flynn said Friday that the Violent Crimes Unit still hadn’t concluded its investigation.
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