PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College students are asking school officials to strengthen dormitory supervision following an assault Friday night that left one man hospitalized.
In a meeting Tuesday at the college’s residence hall where 34-year-old Todd Russell was severely beaten, college Executive Vice President Allan Carr vowed to institute a “zero tolerance” policy to prevent future violence on campus.
“I will get to my objective of seeing that the kind of thing that happened Friday night does not happen again,” Carr told dorm residents.
Students Bryce Anthony Legee, 20, and Christopher Warren Pitman, 19, are being held on $25,000 bail each after they allegedly punched and kicked Russell in the head repeatedly during a fight Friday night in the dorm.
Legee and Pitman were charged Monday in Clallam County Superior Court with second-degree assault.
Their arraignments are scheduled for 9 a.m. June 14.
Russell, who also lives in the dorm, was listed in satisfactory condition with head injuries Tuesday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was airlifted following the assault.
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