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Officers found the 21-year-old victim face-down in the grass of a curb off Forest and Grand avenues near the high school at 11:35 p.m., Detective Capt. John Valente told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.
He was unresponsive and had a “strong odor of alcohol,” Valente said.
“Who’s there?” he said when an officer shook him awake.
“I can’t get up. I got jumped,” the victim told police.
He then showed them the texted video, recorded at a Forest Avenue residence.
“He was getting the better of one of the two, and that one then yelled at the other to get the bat,” Valente said. “After he gets hit with the bat, he runs out of the house.”
Officers went to the home and arrested 20-year-old Colin McGill (above, left), who lives there, the captain said.
They then notified Rutherford police, who picked up local resident Julian Lopez, 19, as he was walking home.
Both were charged with aggravated assault and two weapons possession counts and ordered held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
The victim was released from Hackensack University Medical Center early this morning after being trated for bruises on his forehead, neck and shoulders.
Meanwhile, detectives were investigating the source of the video, with criminal charges likely to follow.
“Whoever took it wasn’t helping the victim,” Valente said.
MUGSHOTS: Courtesy LYNDHURST PD
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