March 1, 2013 – A 44-year-old man who lives in the Loop says four men on the sidewalk in front of House of Blues assaulted him last month.

After arguing earlier in the morning on February 14 about money the men claimed he owed, the unidentified victim says they began hitting him at about 2:30 a.m. He told police he knew three of the men from “hanging out with them” on Lower Wacker Drive.

Following the assault, according to the police report, the man “self medicated” with malt liquor, then slept in an alley on East Monroe Street. In pain when he woke up, he asked a passerby to call 911. He was taken by ambulance to an emergency room at an unspecified hospital with minor injuries to his right arm.

The suspects were described as black males, 30 to 40 years old. One was six feet one inches tall and weighed 200 pounds. Another was five feet six inches, 180 pounds, and had a tattoo that read “LOU.” A third was five feet six inches, 160 pounds, with the tattoo, “SINGING DAVE.”