Warrant Served In Connection With 'Unprovoked Assault' In Mansfield

MANSFIELD, CT — A 22-year-old Willington resident Thursday was served an arrest warrant as part of an investigation into what state police termed an "unprovoked attack" at a Mansfield food establishment last month.

State police said Trent Love was located at his residence, arrested, and charged with:

• Second-degree breach of peace
• Second-degree assault
• Second-degree reckless endangerment
• Second-degree unlawful restraint

Love was released on a court-set $75,000 bond and is scheduled for arraignment in Rockville Superior Court on April 9, records show.

The incident took place just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 23.

According to a warrant, a 20-year-old male told state police that he was sitting on a bench in the breezeway of the business waiting for his food to be prepared when he was approached by another man, identified as Love. According to a warrant, the man said Love told him to get up from the seat and he refused. The man said Love asked him again, and the answer was again no, which resulted in two punches to the head, according to a warrant.

Love was not only identified on surveillance video, but by an anonymous call to state police, according to a warrant.

Love told state police the "victim" was bothering other customers and his girlfriend, according to a warrant.

State police said in a warrant that surveillance footage shows a woman move over to make room for the victim as he went to sit down at the business. It then shows Love approach him, tell him to get up twice, then try to wrestle him off the bench before the punches came. The punches were visible on the footage, according to a warrant.