Man arrested in assault case
19-year-old man charged with injury of TCU student, officer
By Anthony Kirchner
Staff Reporter

Fort Worth police charged a 19-year-old Fort Worth man Thursday with the aggravated assault against a TCU student and a TCU police officer that occurred March 22, Fort Worth police said.

Phillip McCarthy III was arrested after turning himself in to the Tarrant County Magistrate Thursday, bonded out that same day and spent no time in jail, said Detective D.P. Henderson, with the Fort Worth Police Department. McCarthy’s bond was originally set at $100,000, Henderson said.

McCarthy has been charged with “aggravated assault against a public servant causing bodily injury with a motor vehicle as a deadly weapon,” and the case will be submitted to the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office for prosecution, Henderson said. As of press time, a case had not been filed with the district attorney.

Henderson was not able to comment on any other charges that may be filed against McCarthy but did say that police were looking to file other charges against the suspect.

Henderson also said that McCarthy has invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself.

“We want to make this a successful prosecution, and that is why we have been tight-lipped about the investigation,” Henderson said.

Fort Worth police have been investigating the incident in which TCU student David Grubbs and three other TCU students were pursued by two males in a Chevrolet Suburban who repeatedly rammed into the vehicle they were driving.

According to a Fort Worth police report, the suspects assaulted the driver of the vehicle with baseball bats before TCU Police arrived on the scene. A TCU police officer was also injured during the incident, the report stated.

Anthony Kirchner
a.l.kirchner@student.tcu.edu

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