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Weekend knife attack not serious assault

A Marquette student was mildly injured early Sunday morning after being cut by another student during an altercation involving a knife outside Schroeder Hall.

The incident occurred at 2:08 a.m. in Parking Lot D on the west side of the residence hall. The victim sustained a minor puncture wound to his upper abdomen that did not require stitches, and was released from Froedtert Hospital Sunday morning.

Student employees of the residence hall and students acquainted with the parties involved say the suspect is Eric Lipinski, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration.

The university is now investigating the incident, and plans to take “appropriate disciplinary action, which can include a range of sanctions up to and including suspension and expulsion,” according to university News Briefs on Monday.

The suspect, the victim and the victim’s friend were involved in an altercation outside the residence hall. During the altercation, the suspect displayed a knife. The victim approached the suspect at that point, which resulted in the small puncture wound, according to Department of Public Safety Associate Director Russell Shaw.

After sustaining the small injury, the students moved inside and continued a verbal altercation.

DPS officers responding to an unrelated call witnessed the verbal altercation. DPS questioned the students, and at the coaxing of his friend, the victim stated that the suspect had given him the small wound from a knife.

The suspect told DPS officers that immediately after the incident, he apologized “immensely” for injuring the victim and followed him into Schroeder to make sure he was OK.

Milwaukee Police arrived on scene moments after the incident and took the suspect into custody.

The Milwaukee Police Department issued the suspect a municipal citation for assault and battery, said Anne E. Schwartz, an MPD spokeswoman.

Municipal citations don’t require an incident report be filed. The citation was issued because pain and suffering was inflicted in the altercation, according to police.

No DPS e-mail alert was issued Sunday because there was no immediate threat to students, Shaw said.

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    Anon rulesFeb 20, 2010 at 5:16 am

    He wasn’t stabbed. He wasn’t seriously hurt. That’s the point. The post was dripping with sarcasm…apparently that was lost on you.

    I’m sure you know all about life threatening situations and how to distinguish between them. People like you are so quick to judge when you probably have zero experiences when your life was legitimately threatened. You know nothing about what happened other than what was posted in an article that boils down to hearsay from a student that didn’t even witness the event. I’m not saying the kid was right or wrong, but before you string him up and lynch him know what you’re talking about.

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    AnonFeb 18, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    Your logic boils down to “the kid had it coming.” Brilliant.

    It’s not against the law to carry a knife, but it’s pretty damn stupid to if you’re going to use it against another student in a dispute. And how easily could we be reading a different story about a student who suffered a serious injury as a result of this? If the student had been legitimately stabbed, would you still say the knife-wielder’s response was appropriate or proportional?

    The fact of the matter is this could have just as easily gone the other way. The knife-wielding student’s life was not threatened and reacting with a dangerous weapon was in no way called for. For God’s sake, it was outside Schroeder, it’s not as though he was cornered in a back alley.

    If there’s someone on my campus, on Marquette’s campus, that can’t distinguish between non-life threatening situations and genuinely dangerous ones, I want them off my campus because it’s only a matter of time before they actually hurt someone.

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    Anon rulesFeb 18, 2010 at 1:41 pm

    Anon I have to meet you, I didn’t know Marquette was your campus! That’s sooooo cool 🙂 I agree with you too, that’s like so scary! Like OMG a knife?!

    Grow up. Maybe the kid shouldn’t have been popping off, or APPROACHED HIM AFTER HE SHOWED THE KNIFE. Last time I checked, it’s not against the law to carry a knife. And if you have 2 guys coming at 1, and he felt threatened so he showed a knife to prevent an unfair altercation, maybe you should be worried that there are 2 douchebags running around “your” campus looking to beat up kids that carry knives.

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    AnonFeb 17, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    If there is someone on my campus who carries a knife and thinks it’s appropriate to brandish that knife during a dispute, that’s serious enough for me.

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    Anonymous 2Feb 17, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    Going with what the law decided, clearly this incident was not serious considering he walked away with citations, since we live and abide under that law it makes sense for Marquette and the public to assume the same position.

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    AnonymousFeb 16, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    What do you consider not serious? Does someone have to die for it to be serious? What a joke, so people can go around stabbing someone and not get into trouble. Who carries a knife in college anyway. This kid is a low life and needs to have some repercussion to teach him a lesson.

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