Man attacked outside a downtown night club
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Posted 4:00 PM 1/2/2012 : Man attacked outside a downtown night club
TUCSON-A 20-year-old newcomer to Tucson is assaulted and left for dead. Skylar Hughes is going public, hoping to find his attacker and why it happened. Hughes had recently moved to Tucson from Colorado to run a nutrition store at the University of Arizona.
On November 18, he became the victim of a vicious crime. Hughes says, "They didn't take anything, they just beat the crap out of me, kicked me in the face, broke out three of my teeth."
It happened at a downtown club. Hughes says before going there he admits to taking a few sips of vodka and orange juice before leaving his girlfriend's apartment. \
"I was just really tired and stuff and I was still feeling sick and I felt like I was getting sicker being out and I should have been home resting," he said. "I just knew the night wouldn't go very well."
It didn't - Hughes wasn't allowed to go into the club because the bouncers say he smelled like alcohol. One of the friends went inside the club to tell the others, including his girlfriend Skylar, that he needed to go home. He waited, and then that's where everything becomes a blur: "I don't know if I maybe tried to go into the club but Ashley saw the bouncers were picking me up and grabbing me."
He remembers running from something "I was bleeding and I remember spitting out my teeth."
He managed to call his mother in Colorado. He says the people who assaulted him grabbed the phone. His mother says she could hear voices; one person pretended to be Skylar, another one told her, "'You need to get him help' or something, and dropped the phone and left. I don't remember any of this and my mom said where did they go I said, 'they just left me to die.'"
Hughes managed to walk to a Circle K that was located 22 minutes from the downtown club, where he says he collapsed on the floor. The clerk call 9-1-1. He was taken to the hospital, and his mother flew in from Colorado.
"My mom was crying I was just crying. I was sad I just couldn't believe that someone could actually do this." What concerns him, is that the people who assaulted him are still out there, possibly attacking others. That's why he wants the public to come forward with any information they may have.
Tucson Police say they've made no arrests because they don't have much to go on.
If you have information contact 88-CRIME or 9-1-1.
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