PORT ANGELES — A 23-year-old Forks man has been arrested for investigation of first-degree assault for allegedly stomping and kicking an unconscious man in the head during a Sunday morning fight outside the Forks Roundhouse.
Reyes Salazar-Candia faces a formal charge at 1 p.m. today in Clallam County Superior Court.
The arrest was based on the account of one witness and the condition of the alleged victim at Forks Community Hospital, according to the affidavit for probable cause.
A Forks police officer observed at about 1:42 a.m. Sunday the unresponsive and intubated alleged victim with a bruised and badly swollen eye, a bruised nose, cut lip and numerous swollen bruises across his forehead.
A physician told Officer Michael Gentry that the man had sustained a blowout fracture to the left orbital wall and that he could lose function of his eye without surgery.
The female witness told police that Salazar-Candia and the alleged victim had been arguing earlier at a party at the Roundhouse on the 100 block of state Highway 110.
She told police that Salazar-Candia had pulled a knife and threatened to kill the man a few days prior, Gentry wrote in court papers.
The woman said a large group of men, including Salazar-Candia, had surrounded the victim in the parking lot.
She said Salazar-Candia stomped and kicked the unconscious man in the head about three times.
The woman told police she could not identify any other participants or witnesses to the fight, Gentry wrote.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge Erik Rohrer set bail at $30,000 Monday.
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