Editors Note: As of October 2007, prosecutors declined to bring charges against Eugenio Lacayo in connection with this case. Lacayo’s record has since been expunged.

A Loyola student posted $25,000 bail on five counts of aggravated battery earlier this week.

Gustavo Antonetti, international business freshman, 19, was arrested along with criminal justice junior Joaquin Rosales-Aramduru, 21, and Tulane student, Eugenio Lacayo, communications sophomore, according to Sgt. Paul Accardo of the New Orleans Police Department.

Rosales-Aramduru also facesfive counts of aggravated battery.

Antonetti paid the bond on Tuesday and was back on Loyola’s campus Wednesday.

Antonetti will have to set a court date with a judge and lawyer to move forward with the case.

Although The Maroon did not find any official information on Rosales-Aramburu, Ted Cotton, English writing associate professor, said Rosales-Aramburu came to him and explained why he had missed class.

Cotton said Rosales-Aramburu told him he had been cleared of the charges and released on his own recognizance.

“I hope it’s true. He’s a valued student,” Cotton said.

Lacayo also posted bail for $10,000, Lt. Chris Thorne of the NOPD Public Affairs Division said. He was charged with one count of aggravated battery. A court date has also not been set.

NOPD had not established a motive as of Thursday morning in the stabbing of a Loyola senior last week. But Accardo said officers are investigating a report that several men had an argument with the victim on the night of the attack when they were thrown out of a party at a private residence near the campus.

Authorities issued arrest warrants for the students last Friday and arrested them within a few days.

Officials said at least three men attacked a fellow student around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, in the 6400 block of Freret Street.

Lacayo turned himself in Friday around 5:45 p.m. and was booked on aggravated battery.

According to police, finance senior Michael Lloyd was walking home from a party when several men confronted him outside of Tulane’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.

The 21-year-old Loyola student from Lafayette, La., was stabbed in the rib cage just under his arm and suffered an orbital fracture above his eye. No major organs were harmed in the stabbing.

Shortly after the attack, Lloyd was able to walk to University Police, from which he was taken by ambulance to Charity Hospital, police said. He was admitted to Charity Hospital with a stab wound to the back and facial injuries, and was released late last Thursday, police said.

Second District Detective Wade Bowser conducted a follow-up investigation and identified the three wanted suspects as the men responsible. The case is ongoing to determine the identity of any others who may have been involved. Police say there is no information to indicate that it was gang-related; however, more arrest warrants could be issued.

Investigators say Antonetti and Rosales-Aramduru were also wanted in connection with a similar offense that occurred earlier in September. The two students allegedly attacked four University of New Orleans students near a bar on the 5100 block of Freret Street.

In that case, the UNO students, all in their twenties, were attacked while standing in front of a bar. All of those victims suffered puncture wounds, according to a police report that also said none of their injuries appeared to be life-threatening. This investigation is also ongoing and police are attempting to identify other suspects.

The victims identified Antonetti and Rosales-Aramduru as two of the attackers in that incident, though it is believed there were others involved.

The incident that occurred Sept. 22 left Lloyd unconscious just outside of campus, and therefore the case fell into the jurisdiction of the NOPD. According to University Police Capt. Roger Pinac, UP immediately alerted New Orleans police officials.

“We (UP) contacted them and sought medical treatment for [Lloyd],” Pinac said.

UP did not released any information to the student body last Wednesday and since then have issued very little information.

“He’s been released from the hospital and that’s about all I can say,” Pinac said. “I’m saying we’re not handling the investigation, NOPD is. Whatever information they have it’s not in our jurisdiction so it would be pretty inappropriate for us to comment on what someone else is doing.”

The identity of the accused attackers were given to the University Police around 8:30 Wednesday morning according to one source, but the names were not announced publicly until Friday.

Crimestoppers is offering up to a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the person(s) responsible for this crime. Anyone with information is asked to call CRIMESTOPPERS at 822-1111 or toll-free for long distance callers at 1-877-903-STOP (7867). Callers do not have to give their name nor testify in court to receive the reward.

Michael Nissman can be reached at [email protected].