A Texas man charged with assault beat his roommate with a wooden stick after a predawn fight Sunday stemming from an argument about mosquitoes, authorities alleged.
Victor Symone Shavers, 43, attacked his roommate and left him bloody and needing stitches, Dallas police said in an arrest warrant affidavit.
Officers responded to a residence at about 2:42 a.m. Sunday and found Shavers’ roommate outside “with a bloody face.”
The roommate told police Shavers assaulted him shortly after they argued about “what a mosquito looks like,” according to the affidavit.
The affidavit says the argument escalated into a physical fight when Shavers told his roommate he, in fact, did not know what the insect looks like, while the roommate argued otherwise.
Shavers then “grabbed a stick behind his bed” and started hitting his roommate “in the head with the stick at least 6 times,” the affidavit says.
The roommate managed to grab a metal bat from his closet and hit Shavers while he was defending himself, the affidavit says.
The roommate suffered a deep cut on his left cheek and a deep cut on the left side of his head. Shavers was cut on the back of his head and had a swollen right hand, which was possibly broken, the affidavit says.
Shavers admitted to responding officers that he struck his roommate first, the affidavit says.
Shavers was listed as an inmate at the Dallas County Jail on Thursday afternoon. He is charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and assault causing serious bodily injury, according to jail records.
A representative for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said Shavers appeared in court Tuesday and was held on a $28,000 bond.
The attorney representing Shavers did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.