A drinking glass was smashed into the side of one Darien man’s face and another man was punched in the face at about 12:30 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 18 at Chez Ernie’s bar on Tokeneke Road, police said.
The man hit with the drinking glass received “significant injuries” with many cuts on his eye, nose and cheek on the left side of his face as well as on one of his hands, police said.
The man said to have assaulted the two bar patrons, both 51-year-old Darien men, was escorted out the back of the bar by management, and police now want to question him, according to a police report.
Darien police described what happened with this account (including accusations not proven in court, assuming the matter gets to a court):
One of the two Darien men (who wasn’t cut up) told police he was at the bar for about an hour with the other man, whom he had known years ago. He didn’t see the other man get hit by the glass, but he heard it break and he moved in between the attacker and his acquaintance to stop the violence. That’s when he got punched in the face.
The Darien men said they hadn’t had any previous interaction with the violent man and didn’t know who he was or why he was fighting them. The men said they didn’t think they could even identify him if they saw him again.
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The man committing the violence was described as about six feet, 1 inch in height and with a stocky build. He’s been a regular customer at the bar (as well as Center Street Public House nearby) and patrons said his first name is “Chris.” Police were also given the name of a possible girlfriend of the man.
When the man was escorted out the back entrance of the bar, toward Center Street, he took off running toward Old Kings Highway South, then around the corner to Tokeneke Road, where he got into a light-colored sedan. Police searching that route saw drops of blood on the sidewalk.
Police are reviewing surveillance video records from the bar and detectives processed the scene for evidence.
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