A Mason County man was recently found guilty of first-degree assault for an attack that occurred last year in a local bar.
In January 2023, Trevor Collins was arrested for assaulting Michael Newman, of Bracken County, in a restroom at Tators Bar in Old Washington.
According to authorities, an ambulance was called just before midnight and upon arrival, paramedics found Newman in the bathroom, severely injured.
Newman was transported to Meadowview Regional Medical Center before being airlifted to the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center in Lexington.
The assault happened on a Saturday and Collins was arrested on Tuesday.
Newman’s mother, Lisa Newman, said her son sustained multiple facial fractures during the attack and is about to undergo his third surgery to try to save his eye (the retina has detached).
Lisa Newman explained when her son was airlifted from Meadowview Regional Medical Center to Chandler Medical Center at the University of Kentucky in Lexington (while he was so badly injured he couldn’t communicate), the doctors at the UK Hospital said (after Matthew Newman’s first surgery) that they would not be able to save his eye.