Man assaulted, blamed for broken window

A male subject was checked into Bloomington Hospital's emergency room after reportedly being chased and assaulted by four males in the Teter Quad courtyard early Sunday morning, said Lt. Jerry Minger, reading from the police report.\nThe subject reported that at about 4:30 a.m., he and a friend were walking toward Teter past Ashton Quad when he knocked on the window of a dorm room that he believed was his friend's. Minger said the subject reported that people in the room began yelling and that the subject and his friend began running toward Teter. According to the report, the subject said he heard breaking glass and turned back to see four males chasing him and his friend. The subject reported that they caught up to him and struck him in the head, causing him to fall, and began punching and kicking him, while his friend and other people began yelling at the four males.\nMinger said the subject told police the four males fled, and his friend took him to the emergency room to have his injuries treated. According to the report, the subject sustained injuries to his head, left hand and stomach. \nLater Sunday, an officer responded to a call at Ashton-Hershey in reference to vandalism in which a window had been knocked out. According to the report, the occupant of the room said he and three other people had been sitting in the room when an unknown object crashed through the window and hit the occupant in the head. Minger said the occupant reported that the occupants of the room then left and started chasing after two subjects who were running away. He reported that his friends caught up to one of the subjects and began hitting and striking him.\nAccording to the report, the occupant said the subject admitted to breaking the window, and when asked why, he said he had mistaken the window for that of a friend of his.\nAccording to the report, the subject said he did nothing to provoke the attack, and the occupant said he was never able to find the unknown object that reportedly struck him in the head.