Buckhead Bar Beating Footage Released

Atlanta police have released security camera footage of a brutal attack on a college athlete inside a bar in Buckhead in hopes of identifying one of the people responsible.

Footage taken from Kramer’s on the night of Oct. 10 shows two men assault Dillon Swaggerty, 21, who was a member of the Georgia State University baseball team and was a starting pitcher on the weekends. Police tell WSB-TV that they’re looking for the name of the man who is seen on camera kicking Swaggerty after another man punched him in the head.

Days after the attack Swaggerty’s mother told WSB-TV her son was dancing with a girl when a group of men surrounded him and shoved him to the ground. Some of the men held Swaggerty down while another man beat him, his mother said. Swaggerty suffered brain damage in the attack.

Police told WSB-TV that the footage showed Swaggerty and the girl dancing, then getting knocked over by another dancer. Swaggerty got up and exchanged words with the other dancer, who called in a man in a hat to help him. Police said the man landed a tremendous blow on Swaggerty’s head, then the dancer began kicking him while he was down.

Swaggerty, a Canton native, graduated from The Walker School and went on to Georgia Highlands College, where he earned a 3-0 record with a 2.81 ERA during his 2015 season, the Georgia State Signal reports. Swaggerty had just transferred to GSU to start a new season with the Panthers.