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West Virginia high school basketball player faces felony charges for repeated fouls, including breaking competitor’s nose
Ketterman
HARMAN – A Harman School basketball player is facing three felony charges after allegedly breaking an opposing player’s nose during a game in February.
Gage Ketterman, 18, of Bowden, has been charged with malicious assault and two counts of attempted malicious assault. Ketterman was being held at Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $12,500 property/surety bond, which was posted.
According to the criminal complaint, prepared by Corporal Charles S. Hartman of the Moorefield Detachment of the West Virginia State Police, officers received a call from the mother of a juvenile player on the Union High School boy’s basketball team. She said that, during a game on Feb. 26, her 17-year-old son’s nose was broken when he was “elbowed in the face by a male on the Harman team.”
The mother said her son had to be transported from the Union Educational Complex, in the Mount Storm area of Grant County, to Garrett Memorial Hospital for medical treatment after the game, the complaint states. She said her son bled “profusely” for better than four hours, had a broken nose, and a small laceration to the bridge of his nose/eye area, which made it hard for her son to breath, and he needed to see a specialist the following day.
The mother said Ketterman, who is 18, was the Harman player who broke her son’s nose, adding she watched the game video and “the actions of this boy were obviously intentional and he was trying to hurt people,” according to the complaint.
Several video clips of the game in question were sent to Hartman, the complaint states. After reviewing the clips, Hartman wrote that in the first video, Ketterman “placed both his feet firmly on the floor, reared back and swung his elbow directly into the face of” the mother’s 17-year-old son.
According to the complaint, in the second video Ketterman is seen “swinging his elbow wildly again and striking the back of the head” of the same player, knocking him forward. In the third video, Ketterman is seen “again swinging his elbow wildly at the head of another Union player,” a 16 year-old juvenile. This blow hit the left shoulder of the player and glanced the back of his head, Hartman wrote.
The mother later told Hartman that her son’s nose “was broken nearer to the top of his brow, making surgery difficult,” the complaint states. Her son was told “he could play his remainder games if he wears a full face mask, which they had purchased, but said he probably would not because of him being apprehensive of further contact.”
She said the family was advised that surgery on her son’s nose “may be ‘invasive,’ would probably leave scarring and that the family had elected with their son to forego surgery and just live with a slightly crooked nose,'” according to the complaint.
Warrants for the three charges against Ketterman were signed on March 25. Ketterman was booked into the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on Sunday, April 6.
Ketterman’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 22 in Grant County Magistrate Court
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