At 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, the third of four suspects, a 19-year-old Rothschild-area man, turned himself into the Wausau Police Department, according to a news release from the Stevens Point Police Department. A 20-year-old Wausau-area man turned himself in in connection with the same case Tuesday.
At 11:45 p.m. Friday, a caller reported a man who had been assaulted, lying on the ground at city parking lot 16 in the 1100 block of Center Point Drive, according to the Stevens Point Police Department. The Portage County Ambulance transported the victim, Donald G. Mitchell Jr., of the Stevens Point area, to Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital. A helicopter later took Mitchell to Aspirus Wausau Hospital because of the extent of his injuries.
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At 3:08 p.m. Saturday, the Stevens Point Police Department learned Mitchell had died from the injuries he had received during the assault, according to police.
At about 9:31 p.m. Saturday, police arrested the first suspect, an 18-year-old Wausau man on suspicion of substantial battery, which was upgraded on Monday to suspicion of recklessly endangering safety.
Police are asking for help in finding the final suspect in the case, Daemon Kitzrow, 19, of the Wausau area. According to police, Kitzrow is about 5 feet and 8 inches tall and 150 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
As of noon Wednesday, none of the four men have been charged with the assault. The Stevens Point Journal has stopped reporting the names of the suspects once they have been arrested until they are officially charged.
Anyone with information on Kitzrow is asked to call the Portage County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center at 715-346-1503.
Contact Karen Madden at 715-345-2245 or kmadden@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @KMadden715, Instagram @kmadden715 or Facebook at www.facebook.com/karen.madden.33.
This article originally appeared on Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune: Stevens Point Police seek one man in connection with fatal assault