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NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police have obtained a warrant for the arrest of a 19-year-old man accused of assaulting another teen with a baseball bat last Friday.

According to the police, Joshua M. Tillinghast, originally from North Providence, went to a house at 4 Murphy St., where some young people had gathered Friday night and, with a metal baseball bat in hand, declared he had come to pick up his sister.

When George Katsaras, 17, asked Tillinghast why he had come to his house with baseball bat, witnesses said, Tillinghast replied that the "bat comes with me" and allegedly struck Katsaras in the face with the bat. He then fled the scene with two friends, who later said they weren't aware what had happened in the house and dropped him off at a Shell station in Cranston.

The police said Tillinghast is being sought on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, but that as of 6 p.m. Wednesday he had not been located. Earlier this year, Tillinghast was convicted of escaping police custody -- a charge brought by the state police.

Katsaras, the victim of the assault, was treated at Rhode Island Hospital for severe swelling on the side of his face and a black eye.

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