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A 35-year-old Long Island man chomped off a part of his roommate’s proper ear throughout a vicious brawl on Long Island, cops say.
Suspect Marcus O’Brien additionally stabbed the 53-year-old sufferer with a kitchen knife and tried to strangle him within the pair’s Baldwin residence, based on authorities.
The bloodshed occurred when the roomies obtained right into a verbal argument early Thursday morning that shortly turned bodily, officers stated.
“O’Brien struck the sufferer a number of occasions with a closed fist, inflicting substantial ache, swelling and bruising to the sufferer,” the Nassau County Police Department stated in a press release.
“[He] left the room and got here again with a big kitchen knife and stabbed the sufferer a number of occasions, inflicting deep lacerations to his left shoulder and proper arm.”
The sufferer fought again, inflicting O’Brien to drop the weapon and place “each his palms across the sufferer’s neck,” cops stated.
“Then he bit the sufferer’s proper ear, inflicting a big piece to come back off,” the assertion learn.
The injured roommate was capable of escape to a neighbor’s residence and known as police, based on officers.
O’Brien was arrested by Nassau cops.
A Nassau County Police Department spokesman informed The Post {that a} potential motive for the brutal assault couldn’t be offered.
His roommate is hospitalized listed in a steady situation.
Meanwhile, as O’Brien was being escorted by officers to a police automobile, he grew to become “uncooperative, refused lawful instructions and tried bodily power in the direction of the officers,” cops stated.
An officer was handled for accidents.
O’Brien was charged with a number of counts of assault, tried assault, felony possession of a weapon, menacing, felony obstruction of respiration/circulation, felony mischief, harassment and obstructing governmental administration.
