Police said the victim, a 22-year-old town resident, sustained a skull fracture after being struck multiple times in the head with a metal object.
Amherst police are investigating a Friday night assault that fractured a man's skull. One man has been charged in connection with the incident, which remains under investigation.AMHERST -- Amherst police are investigating a Friday night assault that left a 22-year-old man with a fractured skull after he was repeatedly beaten with a socket wrench.
Officers responded to an 8:43 p.m. report of a fight at a parking garage at 51 Boltwood Walk, where they arrested Harrison L. Madzy, 39, of 35 Church St., Easthampton, for allegedly assaulting the man, whom Amherst police confirmed was a town resident but declined to identify.
Madzy is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown on three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Madzy assaulted the man with a 24-inch, flex-handle socket drive, striking him "multiple times in the head and leg," police said. He sustained a fractured skull and a broken leg during the incident and was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, where he remained in stable condition as of early Saturday morning.
The man's brother -- a 24-year-old New Jersey resident -- sustained a hand injury during the altercation, police said.
Madzy is being held on $25,000 bail at the Hampshire County Jail & House of Correction in Northampton.