Boston University senior Kevin Schaeffer was listed in good condition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital last night after the men’s ice hockey defenseman and several other teammates were attacked early yesterday morning outside a Wadsworth Street student residence, according to the Boston Police Department.
Team captain Sean Sullivan was also hospitalized for injuries sustained in the attack, but was released yesterday. Goalie and assistant captain John Curry was punched by an attacker and received minor injuries, while a junior on the women’s lacrosse team was struck in the left side of her jaw by a bat, according to the BPD and Brian Kelley, BU senior assistant director of athletic communications.
The attack took place at 4 a.m. yesterday outside 9 Wadsworth St. in Allston, according to BPD Officer John Boyle. Attackers struck Schaeffer with a baseball bat and Sullivan with a “blackjack,” a lethal club-like weapon, coach Jack Parker said.
According to what involved players told Parker, the victims were leaving the house when they were attacked.
Both players were taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital by ambulance.
Sullivan was discharged from the hospital later yesterday. Schaeffer remained at Brigham and Women’s with facial fractures around the orbital bone, but was in good condition as of 9 last night, according to hospital officials and Parker.
“It sounded like there was no question that they got jumped,” Parker said. “It wasn’t like they were in a fight before it. It was like some guys decided they wanted to get in a fight and cold-cocked them. Schaeffer said he was standing on the stairwell and two guys jumped Sully, and that’s all he remembers before he got hit with the bat.”
BPD officers were radioed to the scene for a report of a “man down” at 4:09 a.m., Boyle said.
There, they found four victims who said they were attacked by three white males, ages 18 to 21, in black hooded sweatshirts wielding a baseball bat, wrench and hammer. According to a report, the victims said the assailants attacked them “for no apparent reason” before fleeing by car down Ashford Terrace toward Ashford Street.
When the police arrived, the report states, they found one of the victims “lying on the front yard of 9 Wadsworth St. with a head wound.” The female victim was “covered in blood” but had no “visible injury.”
The report suggested there may have been other victims and witnesses.
Parker said he learned of the altercation from assistant coach David Quinn, who was contacted by Sullivan.
Parker said Sullivan and Curry should be “fine” but has “no idea” when and whether Schaeffer will return to the lineup, although he is doing “much better.”
The Boston Police are continuing to investigate the incident, Boyle said.
Staff reporter Johanna Kassel contributed to this article.