Eric D wrote:

The gentleman I rent hangar space from was an eye witness to the
incident & first one to the R-22. He said the R-22 pilot was cut up
pretty bad & appeared to have broken both legs. He was in a lot of
pain. The R-44 appeared to lose its MR blades & tail boom in the mid
air. It went straight down middle of the runway in front of the tower.
Very messy. I'll leave it at that.

Did he have any thoughts as to how the two managed to get that close
to each other in front of the tower?

I heard the the student pilot in the R22 turned the WRONG WAY
in the pattern.

It sounds like R22 student was supposed to make right traffic,
but turned left instead and ran into the R44 which was in
left traffic on the left runway.
The R22 pilot could not see out to the left side, while sitting
in the right seat on solo.