{"id":392874,"date":"2026-07-31T01:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392874\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:50:09","slug":"watauga-man-charged-after-suspected-brutal-baseball-bat-attack-leaves-victim-seriously-injured-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392874\/","title":{"rendered":"Watauga man charged after suspected brutal baseball bat attack leaves victim seriously injured, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watauga man<\/a> is facing serious charges after allegedly carrying out a brutal baseball bat attack that left the victim with severe injuries and unable to clearly tell officers what had happened, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/watauga\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Curtis Jr.<\/a>, 20, has been charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">aggravated assault with a deadly weapon<\/a>, according to the Watauga Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who was found in their driveway, was taken to a local hospital with serious head injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the incident occurred on Wednesday in the 6500 block of Ridglea Drive.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, officers canvassed the area, learned Curtis had fled into a nearby home, and secured the area while detectives obtained a search warrant. Because investigators believed Curtis was still inside, the North Richland Hills Regional SWAT Team was called in.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found Curtis inside the residence and recovered the bat believed to be the weapon. He was arrested without incident and taken to jail, police said.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Watauga man is facing serious charges after allegedly carrying out a brutal baseball bat attack that left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,430,27,29,28,20907],"class_list":["post-392874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-watauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}