A Sarnia man is charged with assault with a weapon after a baseball bat wrapped in a bicycle chain was used during a dispute between two roommates, Sarnia police say.

The disturbance in a housing unit in the 100 block of George Street happened Tuesday shortly after noon, police said.

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“A witness reported that two males had been fighting and that one was armed with a baseball bat,” police said in a statement issued Wednesday.

A man in the front entrance of the building, who appeared to be in distress, told police he’d been hit with a baseball bat after bumping his roommate during an argument over their mutual living arrangements.

Following the bump, the roommate used a bat, with a bicycle chain screwed to it, to strike the man in the shoulder, arms and back.

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