A 77-year-old man is accused of punching a woman with her infant in a Walmart parking lot in Hazel Dell, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said.
Timothy Coe, of Vancouver, was arrested Wednesday and charged with fourth-degree assault, officials said.
The woman called 911 at about 10: 13 a.m. on Tuesday and said a man had “punched her in the face and pushed her to the ground,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. When deputies responded to the Walmart, the woman showed them video footage and photographs of the suspect and his car’s license plate. The man had already left.
The woman said the man who assaulted her was parking his car next to hers as she was putting her child into her car. She was afraid he’d hit her open car door and so “tapped the vehicle to alert the driver,” authorities said.
The man got out of the car, and he and the woman argued. Then, according to the woman, he “punched her on the right side of her face with his left fist and grabbed her arms,” the sheriff’s office said. A witness intervened and separated the two of them, officials said.
Deputies arrested Coe the next day at his home and booked him into Clark County Jail, authorities said. He has since been released, according to the jail’s online roster. He has not yet appeared in court.
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