photo by: Chris Conde/ Journal-World

The Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is pictured in September 2018.

A man was ordered to stand trial Tuesday in Douglas County District Court after witnesses described a violent attack at a college bar after a 2021 University of Kansas football game.

Dagan Richard Haehn, 24, of Flower Mound, Texas, is charged with one felony count of aggravated battery, according to the charging document. The charge stems from an incident on Nov. 6, 2021, when Haehn is alleged to have beaten a KU student at Bullwinkles Bar, 1344 Tennessee St.

Haehn was first charged on May 13. He appeared before the court on a summons and was given a $20,000 own-recognizance bond.

At the preliminary hearing, a KU student testified that he had attended the K-State versus KU football game that day and afterward went out to a few Lawrence bars with friends from the rival university.

“I wasn’t expecting to get socked in the face,” the student said when describing what he had planned for the evening.

He said he and his friends went to The Hawk, followed by The Wheel, before ending up at Bullwinkles, where he said a man started bumping into him right away.

“He bumped me in the shoulder and then apologized. I thought nothing of it, but then he did it again and I knew it was intentional,” the student said.

The student said that he pushed the man back and that a bouncer saw the altercation between the two men and ejected the man from the bar, leaving the student to continue drinking with his friends. Within a few seconds, the student said another man approached him and asked him what had happened to the first man before punching the student in the face.

“He said ‘that was my brother,’ and I remember about three punches, then I went unconscious,” the student said.

He said he regained consciousness with the help of his friends and felt the “worst pain” he had “ever felt before. He said he just wanted to lie down in some nearby mulch outside of the bar, but his friends got him to the hospital emergency room, where he was diagnosed with a broken nose, a deviated septum and a concussion, the student said.

He said he remembers talking to police but couldn’t remember exactly how he got to the hospital.

He said doctors told him his nose was fractured in six places. He said his eye was swollen shut for several weeks after the incident and that he has had one surgery to address the broken nose so far and has another scheduled in December.

One of the student’s friends who was at the bar testified that she had turned away from the student for only a few seconds and when she looked back he was on the ground.

“I saw him on the floor with blood on his face and a man hovering over him. He was unrecognizable. He had blood everywhere. His eye was swollen shut,” she said.

She said she ran over to her bleeding friend and asked the man hovering over him “why he would do this,” and she said the man replied “He messed with my brother so he deserves it,” as he was being escorted out of the bar. She identified the man hovering over her friend as Haehn.

Haehn was represented by defense attorney Thomas Bath and is scheduled for a status conference on the case on Oct. 11. He remains free on a $20,000 bond.