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August 25, 2008
Man charged with ‘clocking’ another with shovel
Lee Hermiston
Iowa City Press-Citizen

According to police, officers were called to 2724 Wayne Avenue at 10:52 p.m. Sunday after receiving a 911 call from the alleged victim of the attack.

Police said the man on the phone said Matthew Aaron Osing had just hit him in the head with a shovel.

Police said Osing told the officers that he got into an argument with the alleged victim after they had been drinking all day. Osing said he wanted to go to bed and told the other man to leave.

However, Osing said the man refused to leave, so Osing picked up the Army shovel and “wielded” it.

Man bites off nose after being hit with shovel
By: Carla Keppler and Christopher Patton – The Daily Iowan
Posted: 7/31/08

Donroy Merrival, 40, 863 Page St., was charged Tuesday with willfully causing serious injury to another. Iowa City police officers responded to a residence on Wayne Avenue at approximately 10:50 p.m. on July 24 after receiving a 911 call about a physical altercation between two men.

Police said Merrival, the caller, told authorities that a man had hit him over the head with a shovel and that he had retaliated by biting the man’s nose off.

The man whose nose was bitten said the two men were drinking together in his apartment when Merrival turned violent. He told police that he asked Merrival to leave, but he refused.

He told police that when Merrival wouldn’t go, he picked up a shovel and again instructed him to leave his apartment. The defendant again allegedly refused.

Officers reported that the defendant told them that when the other man hit him over the head with the shovel, he bit his nose off.

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