Man Order into Drug Treatment After Attacking Veterans at VFW

Mason VFW hall attacker ordered to get drug treatment, mental health check 
Zachariah Purcell pleaded guilty to 2 charges
WCPO News
Staff
May 13, 2015

MASON, Ohio -- A Tennessee man who pleaded guilty to attacking two members at a Mason Veterans of Foreign Wars hall was ordered Wednesday to undergo drug treatment, spend time on house arrest and get a mental health check.

Zachariah Purcell, 26, of Morristown, Tennessee, was arrested Jan. 24, 2015. He pleaded guilty March 24 to one count of aggravated assault and one count of assault.

Police said Purcell broke a pool cue over Larry Kennedy's head and hit a woman in the face.

"You don't get in no fights in a place like that," Kennedy said. But when he saw his friend trying to get Purcell to leave, Kennedy couldn't just sit in the corner.

"I just kind of held him down and next thing I know he said, 'I've had enough. Let me up,'" said Kennedy.

"And I let him up and that's when he hit me with a pool stick." read more here