Erika Sherk
Northern News Services
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

YELLOWKNIFE - A man found unconscious and bleeding from his ears and mouth on a downtown sidewalk early Saturday morning is in an Edmonton hospital suffering from severe head trauma, according to police.

RCMP Const. Roxanne Dreilich said police are searching for a man and a group of others suspected of being involved in the incident.

The unconscious man was found by two nurses walking outside the Red Apple restaurant on Franklin Ave. at about 2 a.m. Jan. 27, said Dreilich.

The man is 35 years old, according to what he told witnesses who met him earlier on Friday night.

Police refuse to identify the man. They were still trying to locate the man's father Tuesday.

He had been involved in an incident on the dance floor at the White Fox nightclub, said witnesses, who added the two men were ejected from the bar by bouncers.

One witnesses told Yellowknifer he last saw the injured man walking along on Franklin toward the downtown core.

The nurses who found the man called police. He was rushed to Stanton Territorial Hospital, then medivaced to the Royal Alexander Hospital in Edmonton. On Monday, police said he was "in serious condition for treatment of severe head trauma."

"We're hoping that someone saw either this altercation or what happened on the street and comes forward with information," said Sgt. Andy Ing of the Yellowknife detachment's General Investigation Section.