PORT ANGELES — A second man has been arrested for suspicion of beating up an unconscious man at a party in Forks early Sunday.
Fidel Salazar-Candia, 34, was booked Tuesday into the Clallam County jail for investigation of first-degree assault.
He was being held Wednesday on $15,000 bail as he awaited the filing of a formal charge at 3 p.m. today.
Meanwhile, Reyes Salazar-Candia, 23, was arrested earlier this week for investigation of assaulting the same man outside the Forks Roundhouse at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
He was exonerated of the conditions of his release pending further investigation, Clallam County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Michele Devlin said Wednesday.
Forks police said Fidel Salazar-Candia, Reyes Salazar-Candia and two other men attacked the alleged victim in the parking lot and continued to kick and stomp him as he laid unconscious.
Police arrested Reyes Salazar-Candia after speaking with the alleged victim’s wife and observing the unconscious man’s injuries at Forks Community Hospital early Sunday.
A physician told police that the man risked losing vision in one of his eyes unless he had surgery.
Fidel Salazar-Candia was arrested after police examined video surveillance from the Roundhouse at the Kit.la Center, formerly the 110 Business Park at 100 LaPush Road in Forks.
Once on the ground, the alleged victim was hit in the head or face with a beer can and “kicked in the face multiple times” as he tried to take cover under a parked vehicle, Officer Brent Kempster wrote in the affidavit for probable cause.
“[The alleged victim] said that he recalls being kicked by boots with diamonds on them that were white in color and also red in color,” Kempster wrote in the arrest report.
The alleged victim correctly identified the clothing worn by his attackers, police said.
First-degree assault is a Class A felony punishable by a maximum of life in prison and a $50,000 fine.
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