An Athens man told police that he was attacked not once, but twice, early Saturday while walking home from downtown.
Athens-Clarke County police Sgt. Mark Anthony said Richard Sofge, 27, was walking down College Avenue near Hoyt Street with a friend about 3:45 a.m. Saturday when they became separated.
“Sofge went down Hoyt Street trying to locate his friend and was told by two males that he was inside Bethel Midtown Village,” Anthony said. "When Sofge entered the complex, the two males attacked him but he was able to get away by jumping a fence."
Anthony said Sofge continued toward his home on College Avenue “when five males, one of them with a bat, attacked him.”
“Sofge was again able to escape and made it to his residence,” Anthony said.
He said Sofge sustained minor abrasions and bruises, and a Motorola phone was either taken or lost.
Late last month, a University of Georgia student was also attacked and robbed outside the Bethel Midtown Village complex, and in November, a man was jumped and robbed in the breezeway of an apartment at the complex, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.
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