A Utah man has been charged after he bit off part of his ex-boyfriend’s ear and punched another ex-boyfriend in the nose.
On Nov. 8, Murray police officers were called to a report of domestic violence at an apartment near 4200 South and 100 West. When they arrived the first victim told them police “his ex-boyfriend … bit his left ear off.”
According to a probable cause statement, the first victim told police that he, his ex-boyfriend and a third roommate all live in the apartment. He said the three of them were watching a movie “when the defendant took a glass of soda and threw it at them,” breaking the glass. The first victim confronted the suspect who “reacted by taking” him “to the ground and they began fighting.”
The first victim told police the suspect bit his ear during the fight. The second victim — another of the suspect’s ex-boyfriends — told the suspect to leave, and the suspect punched him in the nose and then left the apartment.
When officers arrived, they saw blood around the second victim’s nose and a bite mark on his left arm. According to the probable cause statement, “they also observed a piece of” the first victim’s “ear had been bitten off, with clear bite marks on the remaining, attached part of the ear.”
The 30-year-old suspect was charged in Third District Court with mayhem, a third-degree felony; and assault and criminal mischief, both a class B misdemeanors. He was booked into the Salt Lake County jail and later released after posting bail.
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