A Pennsylvania police department is looking for a man captured on video at a local VFW savagely beating another man for 30 minutes.
Brett Ours, 39, left after his assault on Sunday night, and none of the three people in VFW bar at the time called 911 until after he left, the City of Aliquippa Police Department said.
Police said they arrived at the bar to find it “in complete disarray.” The victim was life-flighted to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital.
Investigators said after viewing the video that it was “an uprovoked attack” in which “the victim was mostly unconscious and defenseless due to the initial attack.”
Our was seen on the video “viciously” attacking the victim and strangling him, periodically taking “breaks” and then going back to attack while three other people there, one of them the bartender, did absolutely nothing. Police said they “determined that others in the bar also played a role in this assault.”
“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.
