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EAU CLAIRE MAN ACCUSED OF BEATING ELDERLY ROOMMATE

EAU CLAIRE MAN ACCUSED OF BEATING ELDERLY ROOMMATE

An Eau Claire man is in custody after being accused of beating an elderly man he lives with.  A criminal complaint claims 28-year-old Steven Scharein punched his 69-year-old house mate in the jaw on January 2nd and threatened his life with a knife on January 6th. 

Scharein claims the man verbally instigated one incident and that he doesn’t remember the other.  He’s being held on five-thousand dollars bond and faces up to eight years in prison. 

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