Man beaten with bat nearly 4 decades ago dies of injuries

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A Pennsylvania man who was beaten nearly to death with a baseball bat almost four decades ago has died of his injuries.

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And the local coroner has now been ruled his death a homicide.

Craig Tschudy died June 5 at the age of 64 while being cared for at the Inners Creek Nursing Center in Dallastown, 145 kilometres west of Philadelphia, the York County Coroner’s Office said in a statement.

“The York County Coroner was notified … of the death of … Craig Tschudy, who had been injured 38 years earlier after an assault in York City,” the coroner said. “The assault caused permanent traumatic brain injury and complications as a result.”

The coroner determined Tschudy’s cause of death was diffuse traumatic brain injury.

Tschudy was unable to identify the suspects at the time of the assault and no charges were laid.

“York City Police was the investigating police agency at the time of the initial assault, and no charges were ever able to be filed at the time of the injury due to the inability to specifically identify the assailants,” the coroner said.

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Police said the attack on Tschudy, who was 26 at the time, was a case of mistaken identity.

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“Due to the inability to identify assailants years ago, there will be no charges,” the coroner said. “However, this is ruled a homicide in manner of death as the injuries eventually contributed to Tschudy’s death 38 years later, and there is no statute of limitations in coroner cases.”

An autopsy will not be performed, the coroner added.

According to an online obituary in the York Dispatch, Tschudy’s nickname was “PeeWee” and he had eight brothers and sisters.

He was a “friendly person who spent all his life in York” and loved weightlifting and going around town in his wheelchair, including many days spent visiting the York City Police Department.

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