Crime & Safety

Update: Kenosha Man Stabbed While Running from Fight in Mount Pleasant

After a 21-year-old man was stabbed outside the Mixers nightclub, police are searching for his assailant. The victim remains in stable condition at Froedtert Hospital.

Update, 5:35 pm March 4: Stabbing victim Brandon Turner is reportedly in stable condition after surgery, a blood transfusion and having a tube put in his chest to help him breath. He remains at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee after suffering a stab wound to the left side of his chest during an altercation at about 2 am Sunday in the parking lot at the Paradise West/Mixers.

Patch spoke with Zach Pulera, Turner's brother, and according to Pulera, Turner is awake and said a friend got into a fight in the parking lot with "a couple" of people. When Turner tried to intervene on his friend's behalf, he was punched, pushed to the ground and kicked. Turner was able to get to his feet, but when he tried to run away, one of the suspects stabbed him in the left side of his chest.

"He has no idea who did it," Pulera said. "He just said his friend got into a fight with a couple of people. Then (Brandon) got jumped and after he was on the ground and got kicked in the face, he tried to run away. That's when they stabbed him."

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There is little description beyond the suspect or suspects could be either white or Hispanic.

If anyone has any information, they can leave anonymous tips with the Mount Pleasant Police by calling (262) 554-0454 (#4) or by calling Crime Stoppers at (262) 636-9330; going to the website: www.racine.crimestoppersweb.com; or text RACS to 274637 (CRIMES).

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Update, 4:30 pm March 4: Quick action by several employees and patrons of the Mixers Nightclub and Paradise West bowling alley probably saved Brandon Turner's life.

Turner, 21, of Kenosha, was stabbed in the chest by an unknown assailant in the early morning hours of March 4 in the parking lot of Paradise West/Mixers. Witnesses say he stumbled through a back door and collapsed on the floor inside the main bar area of the bowling alley just after 2 am.

"I was sitting at the bar when I heard a 'thump,'" said Chris Skreczko, a longtime employee and patron. "I turned around and saw a man lying on the floor so I went over to him to ask if he was okay. I turned him over and tried to help him up and that's when I saw that he was covered in blood."

Skreczko laid Turner down and immediately began applying pressure. Kyle Giese, one of the bartenders, and Delaney Arnold, a patron, also grabbed towels and napkins to help while Jennifer DeWitt, a Paradise West manager, called 9-1-1.

According to Turner's brother, Zach Pulera, Turner was outside to get cigarettes, a fact Turner himself confirmed to Skreczko while they waited for South Shore rescue personnel to arrive.

"He was having a hard time speaking, but we wanted to keep him as alert as possible so we asked him his name and what happened," Skreczko said. "Brandon said he went outside to get cigarettes, but all he could tell us about who did this to him was that it happened too fast."

Zoran Micic, the manager of Mixers, said he was first alerted to potential trouble when a patron from the club reported a fight in the parking lot.

"We all went outside, but if there had been a fight, it was over by the time we got there," he said.

Micic spoke to Pulera on speaker phone a few hours after Turner was admitted to Froedtert, and Pulera sounded confident that Turner would pull through, telling Micic that his brother has a tube in his chest because of a collapsed lung.

The report of a fight was the first hint of trouble during a night that was a celebration for Skreczko's and Micic's birthdays at Mixers and a bustling night free of any tension in the bowling alley and bar.

"We had hundreds of people here and until this happened, it was a great night," said RJ Guarascio, owner of Paradise West/Mixers. "Mount Pleasant officers had come through about an hour, hour-and-a-half before this happened and all was well."

Micic shook his head at how random the attack seems to have been.

"We don't have trouble like this here," he said. "It really is a case of it could happen anywhere at any time."

Guarascio is proud of the way his employees handled what could have been a chaotic situation.

"Our people jumped right in to help," he said. "They knew just what to do when it mattered most."

Mount Pleasant Police are actively investigating the incident, and a call has been placed to Froedtert about Turner's condition.

Patch will continue to update this story as more details become available.

Original Story: A Kenosha man remains in stable condition at Wheaton Franciscan after he was stabbed in the chest on Sunday.

Mount Pleasant Police issued a written release about the incident, saying they responded to a call at 2:18 am to Paradise West/Mixers for a man collapsed on the floor and covered in blood. When officers arrived they found the victim, a 21-year-old man from Kenosha, with a stab wound on the left side of his chest.

Witnesses told police the man had been attacked somewhere in the parking lot by an "unknown suspect."

Police have not yet released the victim's name, and the investigation is on-going.

If anyone has any information, they can leave anonymous tips with the Mount Pleasant Police by calling (262) 554-0454 (#4) or by calling Crime Stoppers at (262) 636-9330; going to the website: www.racine.crimestoppersweb.com; or text RACS to 274637 (CRIMES).


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