SALEM — Police arrested a 23-year-old Peabody man Friday night on charges he smashed a Salem man in the head with a baseball bat.
Salem police responded to the intersection of Harbor and Lafayette streets at 9:30 p.m. Friday for a call about an outdoor fight with bats.
The victim, a 53-year-old Salem man whom police did not identify, was lying on the ground when police arrived at the scene, and he was taken by ambulance to Salem Hospital. A witness told police that the suspect fled in a red Acura and provided the license plate number to the officers, Sgt. Mark Berube said.
Police stopped the car on Loring Avenue, by the intersection of Pickman Road, and arrested Fidel Sena, 23, of 113 Tremont St., Peabody, and charged him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, causing serious aggravated bodily injury and possibly a skull fracture, according to Berube.
"The witness was brought to the location (of Loring Avenue and Pickman Road), and identified Fidel as the perpetrator," said Berube.
Berube said the victim had a bump on his head and was not bleeding. Police did not have an update on the victim's condition yesterday.
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