Three men were charged with felony assault and/or battery and conspiracy after a man in a black viking costume was found outside an East Greenwich bar with a broken leg, police said.
Officers responding to a report of a fight and a man unconscious in the road "observed a male wearing a black viking costume ... lying on the northbound lane in front of the Greenwich Hotel," according to a report from the East Greenwich Police Department.
The costumed man was "conscious and alert" but "appeared to have a broken leg which was sustained during the assault," the report said.
The owner of the Greenwich Hotel approached an officer and "provided video footage of the incident," according to the report.
"While viewing the camera footage, I observed a white male skinny build wearing a black shirt in what appeared to be a verbal argument with a white male wearing a white hoodie," the report said.
The man in the white hoodie then punched the one in the black shirt, according to the report.
The officer was "unable to finish watching the camera footage due to an unidentified passerby yelling (and) stating that a man in a white shirt who had been involved in the
fight was walking" about a block away and walking up Main Street, the report said.
Two officers ran after the man in the white shirt, caught up to him and handcuffed him, according to the report.
The man denied he was involved in the fight and said he did not recognize the individual in the hoodie, and was subsequently released, per the report.
The officer returned to the Greenwich Hotel and was approached by a woman who told him she attended high school with Damion Sanberg, 40, of West Warwick, and that he was one of the combatants, according to the report.
The woman told the officer she was "holding a parking spot for a friend outside of the Greenwich Hotel when she observed Damion Sanberg, (who) was wearing a white hoodie, punching and kicking two victims" and "by the time she walked over to
the incident, people had started running away and she was unsure which direction they ran in," the report said.
Sanberg surrendered to police three nights later, according to the report, as did a second man, 20-year-old Elijah Foss of East Greenwich.
The third man, Matthew Foss, 43, also of East Greenwich, surrendered to police Thursday, the report said.
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