A student was stabbed Thursday morning outside of a West Campus fraternity house when one man refused to leave a party.
Tyler Currier, 20, a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, was sent to University Medical Center Brackenridge on Thursday morning after suffering a minor body wound, said Austin police Cpl. Scott Perry.
Currier is in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery.
The stabbing occurred at 2806 Nueces St. at 2:53 a.m. after two men walked into a Rush party at the fraternity house and refused to leave the premises, police said. One member of Zeta Psi, who wished to remain anonymous, saw the event unfold said no one in the fraternity knew either of the two men.
“It was a rush party,” he said. “The main goal is to bring in freshman, show them around and introduce them to the guys ... Security was not tight.”
The witness said mid-way through the night, party-goers noticed that one of the men, 21-year-old Austin Rhoades, was armed with what the witness described as a butterfly knife and members of the fraternity asked the two men to leave.
The witness said Rhoades’ friend was compliant and left the house while Rhoades argued with fraternity members. Rhoades eventually left the patio area where he had been smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, but the witness said the two men lingered around the house’s front gate and began yelling insults at fraternity members.
Currier went to confront the two men when, the witness said, Rhoades pulled out a knife and stabbed Currier.
Police arrived shortly after and found Rhoades and his friend near the scene of the stabbing. Officers arrested Rhoades and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony. His bond was set at $20,000. No charges were pressed against the other man.
“It was very childish,” the witness said. “I cant believe it actually escalated as much as it did.”
