A Bloomington man beat another man at an Eden Prairie apartment complex Nov. 1, leaving him with multiple fractures to his face, according to a criminal complaint.
Andres Alberto Gamez, 18, is charged in Hennepin County District Court with third-degree assault causing substantial bodily harm. The complaint was filed Nov. 3. Bail was set at $30,000.
According to the complaint, Eden Prairie officers were sent at about 1 p.m. to a reported assault at an apartment complex on Flying Cloud Drive. They found a man bleeding from the face, with significant swelling and discoloration on his forehead and a bump on the back of his head.
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The man told police that Gamez and a co-defendant assaulted him, the complaint says.
A manager from the leasing office told police he heard dogs barking and people screaming from an apartment. He went to see what was happening and saw three people beating the man. He said they shoved the man’s face into glass and a metal grate and kept going after him to assault him again, according to the complaint. Gamez and the co-defendant then left in a vehicle.
The man was taken to a hospital, where doctors found multiple fractures to his face among other injuries, the complaint says. Gamez and the co-defendant were later arrested.
Third-degree assault carries a maximum of five years in prison.
