Police: 1 man in critical condition, 1 man arrested after assault in State College
A Cambria County man faces charges after a Christmas party at a State College hotel that sent one person to the hospital with severe head trauma.
State College police were dispatched to the Ramada Inn, 1450 S. Atherton St., about midnight Sunday and found an unconscious 26-year-old bleeding from the ear and nose, an officer wrote in an affidavit of probable cause filed Sunday.
Security video showed Roshon Fields, 24, shoved the man to the ground during a verbal argument. The man quickly stood up, removed his shirt and paced around a group of people, police wrote.
Fields picked the man up from behind and body slammed him, police wrote.
The man was unconscious and treated for a skull fracture and brain bleed at Mount Nittany Medical Center and UPMC Altoona, police wrote. He was listed in critical condition Sunday, police said.
Fields told police the man, a co-worker’s boyfriend, was arguing with others at the hotel and being “very disrespectful.” Fields said the man confronted him, took his shirt off and “ran towards someone trying to run them over,” police wrote.
The man “fell asleep” after Fields slammed him to the ground, Fields told police. A lawyer for Fields was not listed on a court document.
Fields was charged one felony count of aggravated assault, one misdemeanor count of simple assault, two summary counts of harassment and one misdemeanor count each of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
He was arraigned Sunday by District Judge Casey McClain, who set bail at $20,000. Fields did not post bail and is detained at the Centre County Correctional Facility.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 2.
Anyone with information about the assault is urged to contact the State College Police Department at 234-7150, by email or submit an anonymous tip through the SCPD’s website.
This story was originally published December 22, 2019 at 10:05 PM.