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ATO stabber pleads guilty to one charge as part of plea deal

The alleged stabber of three Syracuse University students outside their fraternity house plead guilty on Thursday to first-degree assault as part of a plea deal, according to an article in The Post Standard.

Rashaun Cameron, 20, of Syracuse, will face up to eight years in prison for pleading guilty to the one assault charge, according to the article. 
 
Cameron originally faced one count of first-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault and one count of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the Sept. 20 stabbing of three brothers of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, according to police records.
 
The stabbing took place after Cameron and three other men tried to enter a party at ATO, located on Walnut Avenue, in the early morning of Sept. 20, Sgt. Tom Connellan of the Syracuse police told The Daily Orange in a Sept. 22 article. 
 
Nick Condit, an SU student and ATO brother, was on the porch of the fraternity house that night and told the men they had to enter through the side door, Connellan said. 
 
The men reacted by attacking Condit, he said. 
 
Connellan said Condit was stabbed four times, in the armpit, lower back and right arm from Cameron.
 
John Tate and Ryan Saroya, two ATO brothers, came to the porch to help Condit and were also attacked. Tate was stabbed in the right shoulder, and Saroya was stabbed in the waist and left buttocks, Connellan said.
 
Cameron and the three other men fled the scene, but officers from the Department of Public Safety caught up with Cameron down the street, where he was then arrested, DPS Chief Tony Callisto told The D.O. in the Sept. 22 article. 
 
Callisto said Cameron had tossed a knife behind him while he was running that police later recovered as evidence.
 
–Compiled by Beckie Strum, News Editor, rastrum@syr.edu

 





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