On July 11, Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty filed formal charges against the suspect accused of attacking multiple people with a metal chain earlier this month. According to Boulder police, at least 10 people were targeted, four of whom were physically injured.
The charges include one count of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, seven counts of attempted second-degree assault, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, harassment, three counts of menacing, criminal mischief and third-degree assault.
This is the first time a first-degree assault charge has been publicly confirmed. Initially, police had only announced second-degree assault and did not connect a serious early morning attack to the string of incidents that followed later in the day. That attack left 22-year-old Ashton Sasser with a fractured skull and loss of vision in his left eye, according to his mother…