Alleged stabber indicted in Sept. 20 incident outside fraternity house
The man who allegedly stabbed three Syracuse University students outside the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house Sept. 20 was indicted Thursday on five charges that include first-degree assault, according to Onondaga County court documents.
The alleged stabber, Rashaun Cameron, 20, of Syracuse, faces one count of first-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault and one count of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to the documents.
Cameron was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to his alleged attack on the first SU student, Nick Condit. He faces the other two second-degree assault charges for attacking two other SU students, John Tate and Ryan Saroya, according to the documents.
Cameron could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of first-degree assault, a Class-B felony. Second-degree assault charges carry seven-year prison sentences, said Christopher Burke, a lawyer at SU’s Student Legal Services.
On Sept. 19, Cameron and three other men walked up to the front porch of the ATO fraternity House and asked to be admitted to the party inside, said Sgt. Tom Connellan of the Syracuse Police Department.
A fraternity brother on the porch, Condit, a junior in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, told the men to go around to the side of the house. They refused, and the men stepped forward and began to attack Condit, Connellan said.
Cameron then stabbed Condit four times. Condit suffered wounds to the armpit, lower back and right arm, Connellan said.
Two ATO brothers came to the porch to help Condit, and they were attacked and stabbed, too, Connellan said.
The first brother who arrived on the porch, Tate, a sophomore in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, suffered a knife wound to the right shoulder. The second man, Saroya, a senior in Whitman, was stabbed in the waist and left buttocks, Connellan said.
As Cameron’s group fled after the alleged attack, ATO members signaled to a SU Department of Public Safety officer driving by in a marked car. The officer chased Cameron down and arrested him on Harrison Street, said DPS Chief Tony Callisto.
The pursuing officer noticed Cameron throw a knife down, and police later recovered a knife near the 300 block of Marshall Street, Callisto said.
The three men with Cameron evaded police, and prosecutors have not charged any one else in connection to the stabbings.
Cameron is continuing to be held in the Onondaga County Justice Center on $20,000 bail, according to Justice Center records.
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Published on December 6, 2009 at 12:00 pm
