STROUDSBURG -- A preliminary hearing in Monroe County was moved to the main courthouse for security reasons Friday morning.
It was for a man accused of beating another man so badly the victim was in a coma for eight days.
It was an emotional day in the courtroom for family members of victim Frankie Lomusico. Prosecutors say he was knocked unconscious and into a coma at a party in East Stroudsburg in July.
On Friday, the man accused of the attack, Dyshawn Mack of Stroudsburg, was in court for a hearing. Police say he is responsible for a brutal beating in East Stroudsburg this past summer. Mack is facing attempted criminal homicide charges.
Officers say the attack happened along Prospect Street at a party sometime after 2 a.m. July 6.
Mack allegedly punched Frankie Lomuscio of Stroudsburg in the side of the head and kicked him multiple times.
"To actually hear it and to visualize all those things happening to my brother was really, really difficult for me to hear," said the victim's sister Gloria Burnett.
According to court papers, a group of men started punching all of the people at the party after being asked to leave.
Sean Graham was there on Prospect Street that night, and testified the chaos started after a few girls started fighting. He says his friend Frankie was punched so hard, he pulled the victim's head partially out of a hole in a wall.
"I sat him up and he was blue. He had no pulse. He wasn't breathing. I went to give him CPR and saw he swallowed his tongue."
Graham, a pre-med major at East Stroudsburg University, pulled Lomuscio's tongue out of his throat.
"If it wasn't for Sean, my son wouldn't be here today. And we just need to get these gangs off the street, from hurting other people," said the victim's mother Cathy Lomuscio.
Since the attack on Prospect Street nearly five months ago, Lomuscio's family says he is still on a long road to recovery.
"He's suffering right now with something called aphasia. It's a language disability. It makes it very difficult for him to communicate. Reading and writing are very difficult for him."
The traumatic brain injury kept Lomusico hospitalized for more than a month. He's still fighting to recover.
A judge has ruled Mack will head to trial on charges of attempted homicide.
He remains locked up in Monroe County jail and is scheduled to be back in court in February.
