Could Scottsdale Assault Be Linked to Phoenix Golf Club Attack?
A Phoenix restaurant worker is seeking justice after a brutal assault, and he believes the same assailants might be responsible for another violent incident in Scottsdale just days earlier.
Carter (whose last name is being withheld for his safety), a Raven Golf Club employee, was closing up the club’s restaurant when a patron became aggressive. "He got in my face immediately," Carter recounts, "[and said ] ‘I don’t listen to people, nobody talks to me that way’ which I don’t really know what he meant by that. I was just saying it was time to go. I wasn’t swearing, I wasn’t being antagonistic, nothing like that.”
The situation escalated rapidly. “I step around the table and he just runs at me, swings at me," Carter says, describing the attack. "He pins me up against the wall, hits me a couple times, we knock over a couple chairs, hits me again, clips me good in the temple and I kind of go down and by the time I looked back up they were gone.”
John Phebus, Carter’s attorney, describes the scene, stating, "Carter had backed away. He was not confrontational. And the person who assaulted him aggressively comes after him and just starts beating him.”
Initially, Carter was devastated, believing the perpetrators would never be caught. "The feeling I had leaving the parking lot that night was like well that’s it, nothing’s ever going to happen,” he says. However, his perspective shifted when news broke about another assault at the popular Scottsdale restaurant Houston’s.
"Immediately I thought they were connected," Carter reveals. "By the end of my shift, that’s when they released the mugshots and i said oh my that’s them.”
Adding to the mystery, Scottsdale Police are working withs Phoenix PD to determine if the Phoenix golf club assault and the alleged attack on former NHL player Paul Bissonnette are connected.
While both departments insist their investigations are independent, the similarities in the assaults and the appearance of the suspects in both cases have raised questions.
Carter, however, remains hopeful that justice will prevail.
