Following an alleged bar fight, a photo of “Scandal” actor Columbus Short’s victim has been released.
In the image obtained by TMZ, the 37-year-old man involved in the altercation lays on his back while blood pools beneath his nose. Following the incident, the man was taken to the hospital on a stretcher (which is also visible in the snapshot).
A source tells TMZ that Short, 31, continued beating the man until he “looked dead.”
The March 15 incident, which occurred at Gabe’s Bar and Grill in Los Angeles, is now being investigated by authorities as a criminal battery, TMZ reports. Short, who plays Harrison Wright on the popular ABC show, came to blows with the 37-year-old man after he reportedly told the actor, “You might be richer than me but I get my girls to buy me everything I want including your wife.”
This exchange prompted Short to “sucker punch” the man from behind, knocking him out and breaking his nose, an eyewitness tells the site.
The actor is said to have quickly departed the bar, while an ambulance took the man to a nearby hospital.