Police Tape 3

A group of men gathered Wednesday to watch the Cleveland Cavaliers game and play dominoes. The night ended with one man attacking another with a sword over accusations of homosexuality, according to a police report.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An argument between two men over their sexuality ended with one attacking the other with a two-foot sword.

Three men were at an East 55th Street apartment Wednesday watching the Cleveland Cavaliers game and playing dominoes when the attack took place.

One of the men, a 48-year-old who goes by the nickname "Cowboy," accused a 44-year-old man of having homosexual tendencies.

The 44-year-old man fought back, saying he heard from several neighborhood men that Cowboy had homosexual tendencies.

The argument escalated into a fistfight. The two men wrestled in the kitchen until a third man broke up the fight.

The two men decided to take their fight outside.

The man went outside and waited. Cowboy emerged from the apartment with a two-foot sword, and began swinging. He struck the man once in the head and twice in the left arm before the man said he was going to call the police.

Cowboy took one of the men's phones, dropped the sword and walked away.

The other men called police, but officers could not locate Cowboy.

Court records show Cowboy spent 14 years in prison after a 1986 conviction on rape, kidnapping and robbery charges.

No charges have been filed in the attack. Northeast Ohio Media Group generally does not name people who have not been charged with a crime.