YOUNGSTOWN — A man, 46, is in the Mahoning County jail after being arrested Wednesday in connection to an assault on another man with a small baseball bat on Whitney Avenue on the West Side.

No charges were on file for him as of Thursday afternoon in Youngstown Municipal Court.

A Youngstown police report states that an officer was sent to Whitney at 9:30 a.m. for an assault. The officer was with the victim, who said a man hit him in the head with a bat. The man was bleeding profusely from his head, and blood spread all over his face and T-shirt. While holding a towel over the wound, he said he had no idea why the man hit him.

The alleged assault happened in the front yard of the victim’s apartment building. Ambulance personnel took the victim to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment.

A witness told police he or she looked out the window of the apartment building and saw the suspect hitting the victim with a mini-sized baseball bat before leaving the scene on his bicycle.

The officer started to search the area and spotted a man matching the description of the suspect standing beside a bicycle at a bus stop on Mahoning Avenue at Belle Vista Avenue. The man turned and looked away as the officer approached. The man also had blood on his forearm and wrist, but he seemed to have no wound of his own, the report states.

The officer asked his name and whether he was involved in an altercation on Whitney Avenue, and the man asked “Did somebody come after me?” Officers also located a small bat in the man’s backpack, and it had blood on it. He was charged with felonious assault, the report states.

A crime scene technician collected blood samples from the bat and from the man as well as photographs of the man. Without being asked any questions, the man said he was defending himself, the report states. The man was taken to jail and will be arraigned at 10 a.m. today, the report states.

The bicycle was taken as evidence