A 24-year-old Indian student was stabbed in the United States' Indiana on Sunday, 29 October and remains in a critical condition, according to a media report.
Jordan Andrade, also 24-years-old, stabbed Varun in the head at a Planet Fitness massage room in the Valparaiso city of Indiana.
Andrade was detained following the incident in the gym itself, while Varun was admitted to a Fort Wayne hospital due to the severity of his injury, according to a report by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Valparaiso police said that other gym members called them to the Planet Fitness club when they found Varun seated in a massage chair with a head injury around 9am (local time) on Sunday.
The Incident
According to a report in NWI Times, the attacker Andrade told the police that he had requested a massage that morning and walked into the massage room to find the other man, whom he did not know but found “a little weird.” Determining the other man posed a threat, Andrade said he made sure to react the “right way,” according to a charging document.
"Andrade then described (the man) as a threat to him so he, 'just reacted,'" police said.
Andrade said the other man never got out of his chair and did not instigate any contact, "stating that the only physical contact was (the man) attempting to push Andrade off him after Andrade started attacking" him, police said and added that the assailant claimed to have defended himself against Varun as a "defensive fighter."
The Porter Township resident remained behind bars at the Porter County Jail and will make an initial appearance on the charges on 1 November before Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer.
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