A 34-year-old North Platte man is facing multiple felony charges after he and some cohorts allegedly assaulted a man with a baseball bat.

At around 6:45 p.m., on March 3, officers with the North Platte Police Department responded to a residence in the 2200 block of East D Street on the report of an assault.

A 54-year-old male alleged that four subjects had burst into his bedroom and began punching him and striking him with a baseball bat.

Witnesses told officers that all four subjects had fled the scene and the victim was being transported to Great Plains Health for treatment.

According to Officer Rodney Brown, the victim told officers that Justin Martino, his 35-year-old brother Joseph, 32-year-old Kenneth Degeler and an unidentified man entered the bedroom and immediately began beating him.

The man’s wife had removed their daughter from the room just prior to the men barging in.

Brown said there were also others inside the residence at the time of the assault, including a 31-year-old female and two male children, ages eight and two.

Following further investigation, officers determined that there was probable cause to arrest the four men, and charge them with felony assault and child abuse.

On the morning of March 4, Justin Martino contacted the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and turned himself in.

He was jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center and charged with felony 1st degree assault, use of a weapon to commit a felony and two counts of child abuse.

Brown said the investigation into the other three suspects is ongoing.

The victim’s injuries were non-life threatening.