MAHNOMEN, MN (trfnews.i234.me) A Grand Forks man was brutally assaulted. He and and friend tell their story.
James Mashhad is out of the hospital and back home in Grand Forks following a brutal beating in Mahnomen on November 7th Mashhad had 35 staples in his head and broken bones all over his face after sheriff Doug Krier says Mashhad was beaten with a pipe Mashhad says first they went to the casino and then to a gathering at a home in Mahnomen yeah I went in there and we were all sitting there people were talking doing their thing and then I went out to the car to get a cigarette on my way out that’s when I had gotten attacked ok do you think it was just to take your money and wallet or why was this yeah I’m guessing it was because of that I mean I don’t really go out from my hometown here too much so I mean I don’t know who they were they don’t they don’t know who I am at all I don’t I just think it was some people trying to get some money and that’s about it ok how are you doing I are you’re you’re out of the hospital now are you done or you have more medical problems I’m not the hospital now yeah and then they said I went to the checkup my eyes the other day and they said that I’m probably gonna have to go back for surgery again that I’m the it’s still in scrapped I still can’t look up I’m still seeing doubled Mashhad and a friend sent I news this Facebook photo of a man they say was involved in the attack and sheriff Doug Krier now says 35 year-old Michael crowd of Detroit Lakes has been named as a person of interest in this case if you have any information about his whereabouts contact law enforcement hey you were with them and when this happened yes what happened well we ended up just wanting to go because you know because we both have kids and books you know we have babysitters or both our parents we’re taking care of our kids so we just wanted to go out and do something and then um we ended up getting there to some Mahnomen and then there was whatever about a party so we got invited till we went and I knew one pair later I’m just gonna check that for you a little bit so we get to the point but you would give Mashhad you went to the casino for a while and got invited to a party in Mahnomen and then what happened we went to the party and then we were just casually just chilling hanging out and then at nothing seems weird at all and then James went outside and you said he was gonna go smoke a cigarette and I was at the table and right when James went outside um this this guy’s like ran up behind me and he grabbed my bun at Adam point ale and he helped me out a knife point um he just literally I don’t know he just told me not to move and the girls came and searched my bra they searched my parents for anything if I had anything valuable they took my phone they even took my necklace off my neck and they told me to leave so I let I walked out the door and then my car was on because it was my car that we drove there and I I knew she was outside I got into the and nothing seemed out of the ordinary besides there was a van parked right by my car and the lights were on and was like literally right by my car and then I got in my car and James was just all blood and I started crying and I didn’t know what to do because I am I told in your car yes all blood and his face was just a wreck okay um so did it with James said he thought he was just taken he went outside and thought he was beaten just to be robbed you know of anything else going on here no I do not I believe it was probably just to be robbed as well like of the money and our phones and anything valuable that we own what happened did you guys take off then um yeah James’s and driver’s seat and I told them I said switch because you can’t drive off you and he didn’t want to switch he just got out here he just drove out quick to the like by the Cenex area in Mahnomen and then I told him I came to our switch we finally switched and I literally drove like a hundred miles an hour to Thief River emergency room because I didn’t want to go to I didn’t know where the hospital wasn’t Mahnomen we didn’t have phones I couldn’t call my buddy nothing was open literally no gas station was open all the way the Mahnomen 54 otherwise I would have called somebody it’s okay I don’t act I calculate sheriff Doug Krier in Menominee says Michael crowd is a person of interest in this case now did you know him I did not know him at all and I just seen the picture on your newscast from earlier when you interviewed James and yeah he was there I didn’t know if I didn’t know who did that to James but I did not know that guy at all but he was there