49-Year-Old Detroit Man Severely Beaten in Canton

A 19-year-old Canton man and 25-year-old Warren man were arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a weapon, breaking and entering forced entry home invasion and fleeing or eluding police after severely beating another man on Aug. 17, according to a police report. 

Several Police patrols responded The Crossings in Canton on reports of a group of men fighting another lone man, the report said. 

Police found the 49-year-old Detroit man laying on the ground. He suffered fractured facial bones, a fractured molar, facial lacerations and lung contusions. He was transported to hospital, the report said. 

A witness told police that she was just getting home and was on the phone when she heard yelling and saw a man run out of a building, trip then fall on the ground. She said a group of four to six men were running after him and started kicking him in the head and striking him with sticks, the report said. 

Police stopped two men matching witness' descriptions of the suspects, the report said. 

The 19-year-old Canton man told police he was told his mother was hurt and came to her apartment to help, but instead of driving to his mother's, he and his cousin drove to Canton Garden Apartments located east of The Crossings and parked when he and his cousin were arrested, the report said. 

Police told the man that his story made no logical sense, according to the report. 

The man's mother told police she was in her apartment when a group of men broke down her door and forced the man out of her home. She told police that her son was never there, and that it was a man she previously did a strip show and turned a trick with in her home, the report said.

The woman implied that the man who was forced from her apartment arranged the adult entertainment and received payment in the form of using the other man's Bridge Card to purchase groceries, according to the report. 

The woman told police the man was angry because the Bridge Card had insufficient funds when the mother of his children went to use it, the report said. 

Police interviewed the man at the hospital where he told them the door was locked when the woman's son forced the door open and came inside. He told police the woman's son started to attack him and pulled him outside to the apartment common area and hit him with a bat - which was later determined to be a tree branch, the report said

The man was unable to give a complete statement, and is expected to be in the hospital for the foreseeable future, though he clearly told police that the woman's son was the only person with the branch, the report said. 

The woman refused to cooperate with police to give a complete statement, refused to testify against her son and threatened the department with a lawsuit, the report said.