UT student stabbed in fraternity house

By Andrew Martinez
Daily Texan Staff

A UT student was stabbed Thursday morning outside of a West Campus fraternity house when one man refused to leave a party.

Tyler Currier, 20, a junior and member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, was sent to University Medical Center Brackenridge Thursday morning, suffering a minor body wound, said Austin police Corporal Scott Perry. Currier is currently in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery.

The stabbing occurred at 2806 Nueces St. around 2:53 a.m. after two men walked into a Rush party at the fraternity house and refused to leave the premises. One member of Zeta Psi who saw the event unfold said no one in the fraternity knew either of the two men.

“It was a rush party,” the witness said. “The main goal is to bring in freshman, show them around and introduce them to the guys... Security was not tight.”

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 Rhoades pulled out his knife and stabbed Currier.

“It was very childish,” the witness said. “I cant believe it actually escalated as much as it did.”

Police arrived shortly after and found Rhoades and his friend near the scene of the stabbing. Rhoades was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony charge. His bond was set at $20,000 and no bond has been posted. No charges were pressed against the other man.