Death of attack victim 38 years after he was battered with a baseball bat is ruled a homicide

The recent death of a 64-year-old Pennsylvania man has been ruled a homicide resulting from a vicious beating by bat-wielding goons nearly 40 years ago.

Craig Tschudy was 26 when he was attacked by unknown thugs in a case of mistaken identity in 1986, leaving him with a “permanent traumatic brain injury and complications,” the York County Coroner’s Office said Wednesday.

Tschudy died June 5 at the Inners Creed Nursing Center, the coroner said, listing the manner of death as homicide.

“York City Police was the investigating police agency at the time of the initial assault and no charges were able to be filed at the time of the injury due to the inability to specifically identify the assailants,” the coroner’s office said in a statement.

“Tschudy, who was 26 years old at the time of the injury, was reportedly assaulted with a baseball bat by unknown assailants at the time, a case of mistaken identity.”

The office said there would be no autopsy conducted and no charges will be filed at the moment.

However, the office noted that there is no statute of limitations on homicides should there be an arrest in the decades-old cold case.