ASHLAND, Ore. -- Police trying to find the person who nearly decapitated a young grocery store clerk on a bike path through Ashland, Ore., are looking into the victim's online gaming, including one video game that contains scenes of medieval swordplay.
Police Chief Terry Holderness said Thursday that investigators consider it unlikely that David Grubbs had made an enemy from playing a game called "Assassin's Creed," but more likely avenues of investigation are hitting one dead end after another.
Police have also called in a forensic anthropologist who is an expert in what is known as sharp-force trauma to examine the victim's wounds.
Holderness says Steven Symes, an assistant professor of applied forensic sciences at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., will be in Ashland next week to talk to investigators.