A high school basketball player has been charged following his arrest for committing an overly aggressive foul on an opponent during a game earlier this year.
The student, who attends Harman High School in West Virginia, is being tried as an adult in Grant County following accusations of deliberately swinging his elbow at an opposing player and breaking his nose.
According to WBOY, the West Virginia State Police got a call on February 27 from a woman who said her 17-year-old son had been assaulted at a basketball game that evening between Harman and Union High School.
She told the officers her son was elbowed in the face by a player from Harman, who has since been identified as Gage Ketterman. The blow is said to have left the boy bleeding profusely for over four hours, and he had to be taken to the hospital.
High School Basketball Player Hit With Three Charges After Supposed Assault
The authorities reviewed several clips from the game and apparently saw enough to arrest the 18-year-old, who was seen swinging his elbow “directly into the face” of a Union player, while there was also footage of him hitting other opposing players in the back of the head.
Police said that there was a point where Ketterman was seen “wiping something off the elbow he had just used to strike [the Union player].”
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His actions were deemed “intentional and criminal malicious in nature.”
Given that he was already 18 at the time of the incident, troopers requested three warrants for Ketterman’s arrest: one for malicious assault and two for attempted malicious assault.
The outlet noted that his photo and information did not appear in the West Virginia Division of Corrections system, but the West Virginia Magistrate Court system shows he posted a bond of $12,500.
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