Syracuse, NY - A Syracuse man who tried to crash a Syracuse University frat-house party last year today admitted attacking the student who denied him entry. Rashaun K. Cameron, 20, of 1923 Valley Drive, pleaded guilty before state Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti to a single felony count of first-degree assault in the Sept. 20 attack on Nicholas Condit. Cameron...
Syracuse, NY - A Syracuse man who tried to crash a Syracuse University frat-house party last year today admitted attacking the student who denied him entry.
Rashaun K. Cameron, 20, of 1923 Valley Drive, pleaded guilty before state Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti to a single felony count of first-degree assault in the Sept. 20 attack on Nicholas Condit.
Cameron could have faced up to 25 years in state prison. But Brunetti promised him a sentence of 8 years in prison under terms of the plea deal.
Sentencing is set for June 18.
Assistant District Attorney Robert Moran said Cameron stabbed the 20-year-old Condit four times, twice under each arm pit, after Condit refused to let Cameron and his friends into a party at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house on Walnut Place.
Moran said SU rules don't allow non-students to attend such parties.
Authorities said Cameron initially punched Condit in the face, kicked him down the porch stairs and then stabbed him while he was on the ground.
A second SU student, John Tate, 19, was stabbed when he tried to take the small knife away from Cameron, authorities said. A third SU student, Ryan Saroya, 22, was kicked in the face and stabbed in the buttocks and waist area when he tried to help out the other victims, officials said.
SU peace officers captured Cameron at gunpoint a short distance from the fraternity house.
Moran said the three other people with Cameron were never caught or identified. But he said all the evidence indicated it was Cameron who was armed with the knife and stabbed all three victims.
The guilty plea to the first-degree assault charge for attacking Condit satisfied lesser second-degree assault charges for the attacks on Tate and Saroya.