By
Ryan Gabrielson
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tucson Police have license plate number for the attackers'
Three UA students were attacked at their home early Saturday morning when seven uninvited men came to a birthday party being thrown for one of the house's residents.
Two of those attacked were beaten, the third was stabbed twice at a house on East Lester Street and North Highland Avenue.
They have requested their names not be printed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat because they are concerned for their safety.
"They attacked in numbers," said one of the victims.
At about 2 a.m. Saturday, the two kegs that had been purchased for the party had run out and about 40 people remained when the seven men arrived.
"People were on their way out," said Rob Taffe, history education senior who was also at the party.
When the men, who had brought their own alcohol, were asked to leave they replied "fuck no," said one of the attacked students. One of the perpetrators then hit the student in the face, knocking him down and the entire group began kicking him.
The group of attackers then moved on to the second roommate when one of the men took out a knife and stabbed him.
He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, 1601 W. St. Mary's Road, to have the stab wounds treated - one by his stomach and the other by his liver along with several smaller cuts across his torso.
The third student was also knocked down and is going to require plastic surgery on his nose, one of the roommates said.
"The way they hit me, they'd been in fights before," said another of the roommates. "I've never been hit like that in my life."
The altercation took about 10 minutes and then the men left, Taffe said.
Tucson Police Department officers responded to the scene with 10 police cars but Sgt. Judy Altieri, TPD public information officer, said that she could not provide a report from police yesterday.
TPD officers had the license plate number of the car the attackers were in, Taffe said, and the three students plan to press charges.
