Two arrested in connection with professor beating at WSU
Apr 11, 2013, 8:16 AM | Updated: 8:24 am
Two Washington State University students are in custody, accused in the beating of a professor.
David Warner tried to intervene in a fight in the early morning of March 30 when a group of college-age people beat him into critical condition.
“As a result of our entire investigation, I would say alcohol was definitely a factor, as it is with many assaults in that area,” said Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins
According to police, the campus video camera helped them catch the two suspects. Both are cooperating as detectives hunt for two more.
WSU President Elson Floyd is donating $10,000 of his own money to a reward fund to help find the young men they believe beat Warner unconscious.
WSU is also creating a Commission on Campus Climate to address what he calls an “underlying fear and anger among some on campus regarding issues of race.”
Warner is Native American and teaches in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, although police have said there’s no indication race was a factor in the beating.
