As he sat in the folding chair they'd put into the grimy shower, Kollias, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound University of Rochester senior defensive end, realized he had no idea where he was, who the men were or even what they wanted from him. He couldn't even see their mouths move as they screamed for revenge. He could see only their eyes through the masks when they attacked him. He could hear the men in the room next door, laughing, smoking weed and maybe still wearing those terrifying plastic masks.īut who were they? Kollias didn't know. It was only then, when the blood just wouldn't stop from that last blow, that they halted their attack and threw him in the shower. He could no longer feel that leg and couldn't see it because so much blood kept pouring into his eyes from his scalp, over which they had smashed a long, fluorescent lightbulb. He didn't realize they'd also shot him in the calf of his other leg. His femur was shattered he'd felt it explode after they shot him there when he tried to run. But he worried that if he pulled the brace apart, his leg might actually fall off. He wanted to clean it and his skin underneath. Kollias wanted to take off his ACL brace, the one he'd been wearing after knee surgery for a recent football injury. His khaki pants and ripped University of Rochester Football T-shirt sat crumpled in the corner, the blue and yellow of his college colors turning brown as his blood began to oxidize in the fabric. He could still see the roll of duct tape nearby, covered with the bloody fingerprints they'd left behind when they taped his hands and feet together before slamming the rebar and heavy metal pipes down onto him, over and over again. He didn't know where they'd put the hedge clippers he was just glad they were gone. And the gaping cuts where they had sliced the webbing between his toes.Įven more blood was coating the clothing iron sitting on the sink. Niko Kollias watched his blood swirl down the bathtub drain.
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