Mother, Son Assaulted With Crowbars In Retaliation Case: Report

OAK CREEK, WI — Three men have been arrested and charged after police in Oak Creek say they assaulted an Oak Creek man and his mother in retaliation for a previous fight.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County, Mohammad Assad, Muntaser Assad and Odai Assad of Franklin each faces two counts of substantial battery as a party to a crime. If convicted, they each face up to three years behind bars if they are convicted.

Oak Creek police say officers were sent to the 8500 block of South 5th Ave. on April 5 on a report of an assault case.

According to the criminal complaint, when police arrived, officers found a Toyota Rav 4 resting in the ditch with several of its windows smashed out, and a victim with a gash on the side of his head among other injuries.

When police questioned the victim, he said he was run off the road, and boxed in by two other vehicles, saying Mohammad Assad, Muntaser Assad and Odai Assad got out and confronted him, according to the criminal complaint.

Authorities said the three began to smash out his car windows with crowbars. According to the criminal complaint the victim's mother was in the passenger seat as this was happening, and tried protecting her son by covering his body. Police said she was struck several times with crowbars.

According to the criminal complaint, the mother suffered a broken wrist, and her son had to have staples affixed to the back of his head to close an open wound.

When police questioned the son over why this might have happened, he told police he believed it was in retaliation, because he had broken the jaw of Mohammed and Muntaser's brothers two weeks earlier in a fight.