"Mr. Griffin believes words were exchanged and he was struck in the head with a champagne bottle," NOPD 8th District Officer Tony Mitchell states in the report.
Jonathan Bullington and Kat Terrell of the nola.com got their hands on a police report detailing Ryan Griffin's involvement in an altercation at a Central Business District lounge earlier this month that resulted in him getting 50 stitches in his face.
Quoting from a story that quotes and paraphrases from a police report gives us this sequence:
The reported bottle attack began not long after Griffin and some friends arrived at Apres Lounge, 608 Fulton St.