A 47-year-old man was charged with aggravated assault Thursday after being accused of stomping on another man’s head behind a Tamuning restaurant, according to a magistrate’s complaint filed in Superior Court.
Peter Paul Ffiran denied hurting the man, who was taken to Guam Regional Medical Center with head injuries. His condition was unknown Tuesday.
Police were called to Sakura Kitchen on Route 1 at 7:07 p.m. Monday after a witness reported seeing a man in a red shirt stomping a man who was lying face-down on the ground. A third man, also in a red shirt, sat near a wall, according to the complaint.
A police officer found three men at the scene – Ffiran, the injured man and a third man. The injured man was lying face-down and bleeding from a cut on the left side of his forehead. A pool of blood flowed from the wound, and another pool of blood was nearby. His back was scratched, and the officer determined the man had been dragged on his back.
At the hospital, the injured man’s blood alcohol was measured at 0.270%, with a major injury caused by a blow to the head that resulted in intracranial bleeding, according to the complaint.
Ffiran, who had blood on his shorts and feet, told the officer the injured man fell backward. He admitted he handled the man, lifting him or picking him up, and said he got blood on himself when he moved the man.
When the officer asked how the man hit his forehead if he fell backward, Ffiran said he fell forward. When asked to clarify, Ffiran said he only remembered that the man fell.
Later, Ffiran told the officer that he, the injured man and the third man had been drinking vodka since noon, and “drunks often fall,” the complaint stated. He said he didn’t stomp on the man, but he did move him off the road.
He also said he was aware of the cut to the man’s head, but he thought it was small and didn’t require medical attention. He said he and the third man continued to drink.
Ffran was arrested and charged with aggravated assault as a second-degree felony.
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