The Reiss rumble was not the only violent crime in Georgetown this weekend. A Georgetown University student was brought to the hospital after an altercation with a man who jumped out of his car near the intersection of M. and Bank Streets around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
The students, who confirmed they were intoxicated, were riding a taxi back to campus after partying at Exchange, a bar near George Washington University.
From inside his vehicle, an unidentified man insulted the soon-to-be-injured student’s friend. The man told them that they were “losers” for riding in a taxi while he cruised in a Mercedes.
“That’s the least expensive Mercedes on the road,” responded the student’s friend, who said he did not want to be identified.
The first student said that he then exited the taxi to calm the man down. “I got out of my door to tell the guy to back off … to shut up and keep on driving,” he said.
But when the student confronted the man, his friend said, the man ran at him and started punching his head against a window.
“Before I’d even said a word, the kid walked up to me and starting punching me … I didn’t even get a chance to play defense,” the injured student added.
He did not think he was hurt until his friend pointed out the blood dripping down his face from a laceration above his right eye brow.
“He looked down and his entire shirt was covered in blood,” his friend said.
Metro Police officers and an ambulance arrived at the scene to take the student to George Washington University hospital. Though the students filed a complaint with MPD, Media Liaison Kenneth Bryson did not have any knowledge of the incident.
Only at the hospital—when he took his hat off—did the injured student realize that he was also cut on the top of his head. The student received stitches above his right eye brow and staples on his head.
When MPD asked the stitched-up Hoya if he wanted to press charges, he declined because he did not think there was a chance of catching his attacker, as he did not remember what he looked like, he said.
