Video shows 4-year-old endangered in bar fight; police search for suspects
03/05/2018 4:10 pm PST
By Joe Dahlke, KDVR
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. -- (KDVR) -- Video released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Monday shows bar fight between three men, including the victim, who was holding his 4-year-old daughter.
Thirty-nine-year-old Richard Warry Brown was holding his daughter when the fight started at Crossroads Pizza & Wings Bar around 10:10 p.m. on Jan. 25, the sheriff's office said.
After a few punches were thrown, someone in the bar takes the child from Brown and the fight continued with several more punches and a kick to Brown's face.
Brown was air-lifted to an area hospital for serious bodily injuries, officials said. The child was not injured in the incident.
Brown was later issued a summons for misdemeanor child abuse, according to the sheriff's office.
One of the suspects, Joel Michael Wilson, 31, has been arrested and faces charges of first degree assault-extreme indifference, second degree assault – serious bodily injury, and child abuse.
The other suspect has not been identified. He is described as a white, thin male in his mid-20s and stands about 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Sheriff's Office tip line at (303) 271-5612, or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at (720) 913-STOP (7867); reference case number 18-2023.
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