A 55-year-old Columbus man working as a security guard outside an apartment building on Dayton Street allegedly was beaten and spit upon by a young man early Sunday morning. The attack happened at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of West Dayton Street outside the Dayton House apartments, Madison police said.
….According to the police report, the security guard was hired to watch over mopeds parked on the property, since there had been vandalism problems in the past.