Former roommate beaten, hospitalized

A Batesville man beat his former roommate with a blunt object Tuesday, causing multiple facial fractures, according to a police report.

Pulaski County deputies said Robert Earl Childers’ ex-roommate was rushed to the emergency room Tuesday and will need surgery after Childers and another man struck him multiple times with an unknown object.

Deputies said Childers had not lived at the residence for more than two months, but that he and the second man broke in, assaulted the roommate and burglarized the trailer home.

Childers had made several threats to his former roommate in the past, according to a police report.

Deputies arrested Childers on a charge of felony aggravated residential burglary and felony second-degree domestic battery. Childers remained in the Pulaski County jail Wednesday night with no bail set.