Raleigh Police Detectives charged Charles Zachary Poll Monday with assault inflicting serious injury in connection with a Sept. 30 incident outside 1303 Hillsborough St., according to a press release from Jim Sughrue, spokesperson for RPD.

  Poll was taken into custody without incident, according to the release, and has been transported to the Wake County Jail. Sughrue also explained tips stemming from media coverage of the case were instrumental in identifying Poll as a suspect.

On Sept. 30, 23-year-old Evan Lawrence stepped outside the Jackpot Bar in downtown Raleigh and was involved in an altercation, according to police reports. Lawrence received life threatening injuries and was transported to Rex Hospital where he remains in critical condition as of Monday night.

According to an Oct. 3 News & Observer report, Lawrence walked outside the bar for a cigarette. Upon accidently flicked the cigarette onto a man, the unknown person attacked.

Lawrence arrived at the hospital Thursday evening, the article says, and was wheeled into surgery by 10:30 p.m. for a blood clot in the his brain.