sure seems appropriate to me. Nacua might be a good guy in other ways, but he assaulted a person from behind. A lot of crimes are committed in the heat of the moment; that is not justification. I find it amazing that lots of people on this board are defending him.

Under Utah statutes (76-5-102), the crime of assault is defined as doing one of the following:

Attempting to do bodily injury to another with force or violence,
Threatening with a show of immediate force or violence, to do injury to someone, or
Acting with force or violence and causing bodily injury to another or creating substantial risk of such injury.