A Pennsylvania police department is looking for a man captured on video at a local VFW savagely beating another man for 30 minutes.
The City of Aliquippa Police Department reported that 39-year-old Brett Ours left the VFW bar after assaulting someone on Sunday night. Surprisingly, none of the three people present in the bar at that time called 911 until after Ours had already left.
Police said they arrived at the bar to find it “in complete disarray.” The victim was life-flighted to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital.
Upon examining the video footage of the incident, investigators described the assault as “unprovoked” and noted that the victim was rendered mostly unconscious and defenseless following the initial attack.
The video footage revealed Ours relentlessly attacking the victim, even going as far as choking him. Shockingly, three other individuals present during the assault, including the bartender, did not intervene. Authorities concluded that these bystanders also played a part in the violent incident.
“Those persons are still under investigation,” police said. “More details on their arrests will be made once the investigation is completed.”
Ours has been charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, strangulation, possessing instruments of a crime, and simple assault. Aliquippa Police said the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office has also issued a warrant for his arrest and caution the public to not approach him.
“What if someone should happen to see this man? Do not approach him. It seems like the damage that was done to the victim, in this case, this individual could snap,” Nate Bible, Beaver County District Attorney, told KDKA. “He is a violent individual, and in viewing this tape, it is very clear that he is a violent individual.”
There was no update on the victim’s condition, but Bible said he was “unrecognizable” after the assault.
