An MSU professor is offering $350 to anyone with information about the person who put his son in the hospital Oct. 29.
Patrick Nordin suffered a compound skull fracture and brain hemorrhaging after he was assaulted in the Cotton District after a Halloween party. Nordin, the facilities manager at the Sanderson Center and the son of history professor Dennis Nordin, was released from the hospital Sunday night.
Dennis Nordin is hoping a monetary reward will draw information into the light. “Macho people tend to brag about their conquest,” he said. “I think the person who did this should be brought to court.”
Nordin was walking on Hogan Street at about 11:45 p.m. Friday when two males in a gray or silver truck stopped, said detective William Lott of the Starkville Police Department. According to a witness, an argument followed and one suspect hit Nordin with his fist, causing him to fall, Lott said.
Lot said Nordin provoked the incident, but declined further comment.
Before an ambulance took him to the Oktibbeha County Hospital, Patrick Nordin lay unconscious in the parking lot of the Cotton District Tanning Company for about 20 minutes, blood and vomit dripping out of his mouth.
A ring of his friends stood over him, checking his pulse and trying to wake him, before emergency personnel showed up and took over.
He had dressed up like a “Nascar dad” for Halloween.
A witness described the suspects as two white males, both about 6 feet tall, driving a gray or silver American-made truck. One suspect had brunette hair and wore a baseball cap, while the other had blonde, crewcut-style hair, Lott said.
The incident is under investigation. The assaulter faces a misdemeanor charge of simple assault, for which he faces a $500 fine or up to six months in jail, Lott said.
Dennis Nordin said that his son is doing better now than when he was released Sunday. He still has severe headaches, blurred vision and troubled walking, he said. He said his son has a chance of complete recovery, but may develop fits of seizures or epilepsy in the future.
He said that while he doesn’t know exactly what led up to the confrontation, it shouldn’t have ended like it did. “There’s other ways to resolve things,” he said.
Anyone with information involving the incident should contact the Starkville Police Department at 323-0393.