PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Connecticut man is being charged with assaulting a Brown University basketball player that left him critically injured.
Tory Lussier, 24, was arrested in Vernon, Conn., Wednesday on a warrant, said Deputy Chief Thomas F. Oates III. Lussier is being held as a fugitive and is awaiting extradition, Oates said.
Lussier is accused of punching Joseph Sharkey, 21, of Norwood, Mass., early Sunday near the Brown campus on the East Side early Sunday morning. Oates said the disturbance at Thayer and George streets remains under investigation.
Sharkey is a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard who attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, outside Springfield, Mass.
He was injured his freshman year and missed the entire season. This year, he played in all but one of Brown's 28 games, mostly as a reserve.