Staff Report

Brandon Jaymes Hattery

SYRACUSE — A Syracuse man was arrested for allegedly hitting a man multiple times.

Brandon Jaymes Hattery, 31, 500 Meadow View Drive, Syracuse, is charged with battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, a level 6 felony; and battery, a class A misdemeanor.

On March 23, a Syracuse Police officer and Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to a report of an unwanted individual at a Syracuse residence.

According to court documents, a man said Hattery hit him six times on the head with a closed fist. Hattery also held the man down on a bed and hit him one time on the mouth with a closed fist. In the process of trying to get away, the man said he hit Hattery in the mouth one time. Officers noticed the man had a swollen lip.

Hattery told officers the man came at him and started hitting him first.

Hattery has already been arrested and released on his own recognizance. He has an initial hearing at 1 p.m. May 20, in Kosciusko Superior Court Two.