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A man was attacked with a metal pipe after he asked a man to leave a party, police said.

JERSEY CITY -- A 24-year-old man was attacked with a metal pipe after he asked an uninvited party-goer to leave a New Year's celebration, police said.

The victim said he was at a house party on Newark Avenue with three of his friends when a man, later identified as 22-year-old Sai Ravipati, started acting "belligerently" towards people at that party, according to a police report.

None of the four men knew Ravipati and asked him to leave at about 7 a.m. after a verbal argument. An hour later Ravipati, of Poughkeepsie, returned back to the home and asked the victim to talk outside, police said.

Outside the vestibule of the building, Ravipati hit the 24-year-old victim in the head with a metal pipe. The victim "returned blows" with Ravipati and yelled to his friends for help, the report states.

The group of men chased Ravipati up Newark Avenue, turned onto Summit Avenue, and stopped him at the Pavonia Avenue intersection. The friends asked people walking in the area to call police, according to the report.

Witnesses told police the group "had an altercation" with Ravipati at the intersection. A bloody pipe was found near where the chase ended, police said.

The victim was brought to Jersey City Medical Center where he needed stitches. Ravipati was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, possession of weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, the report states.

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