PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Police have charged a second suspect in the assault on a Brown University basketball player last weekend.
Dillon J. Ingham, 22 of New York, was charged with disorderly conduct and is being held for the next session of District Court, police said Friday afternoon. His specific involvement in the incident was not disclosed.
Brown University has confirmed that he is a student at the school, and is a member of both the football and wrestling teams. He and Sharkey are both student-athletes at Brown and they are both brother of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
Some of Ingham's fraternity brothers said they were very surprised when they heard his name connected to this investigation.
"I can't say a bad thing about Dillon," one of his fraternity brothers said. "He's one of the nicest guys I ever met. I just don't understand what's going on with that."
Earlier Friday, Tory R. Lussier, 24, of 57 Pinnacle Rd., Vernon, Conn., was released on bail after he was arraigned on a charge of felony assault in the incident.
Lussier's lawyer, John Lombardi, called it "a clear case of self-defense."
The victim, Joseph Sharkey, 21, a sophomore, was reported in critical condition with a head injury. Providence police said he was found at 2:23 a.m. Sunday face up at Thayer and George Streets, "bleeding heavily from the mouth and nose area."
-- With reports from WPRI.com