Knockout Game in Iowa? Police Receive Three Reports of Attacks in One Day, ISU Student's Jaw Broken After Assault

Law enforcement officials are looking into yet another potential case of the "knockout game" in a central Iowa city.

Ames police told NBC's local station WHO 13 that they'd received three different reports of random attacks that seem to match the description of "knockout" assaults, which usually call for participants to run up to a complete stranger on the street and deliver a single sucker punch that leaves the victim out cold.

Three different cases were submitted by Iowa State University students concerning a series of attacks that allegedly occurred on Feb. 16. In each of the accounts, victims reported being approached by a man who socked them for no apparent reason, then fled in a dark colored vehicle.

The students reported seeing at least one other passenger in the getaway car, and have described the alleged attacker as a black man with dreadlocks, according to WHO 13.

Student Nathan Bond told WHO 13 that he sustained serious injuries after the Feb. 16 assault. Bond, who studies chemistry at the University, suffered a broken jaw that he had to have wired shut.

The student recalled the incident on Monday, saying that a car pulled up next to him and a man he didn't recognize jumped out with "a smile on his face."

"I'm like, oh, you know, what's going on?" he said. "Next thing I know, I'm on the ground picking myself up, just full of blood. I look and I see the car, and by the time I'm standing up, he's in the car and driving."

According to Ames Police Department Commander Geoff Huff, the attacks appear to be part of the "knockout game" - the dangerous phenomenon that's caused at least seven deaths, primarily in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area.

"You know, we've seen the videos, we've heard of it, this would be kind of similar to those kinds of incidents," Huff told WHO 13. "It really is a victim that didn't see it coming and obviously didn't deserve it."

Louisiana police received reports of an attack that seemed to be linked to the "game" last week.

Windall Herring, 19, and a 15-year-old whose identity has not yet been released, were charged with second-degree murder, after they reportedly struck and killed Baton Rouge resident John Bannon, 55.

Bannon died last Friday after suffering fatal injuries to the head, including a fractured skull and brain hemorrhaging.