A Village of Antrim Dells man was arrested after a violent altercation Sunday in the parking lot of a Publix grocery store in The Villages.
Douglas Robert Bowen, 62, of 3930 E. Torch Lake Drive, was arrested on a charge of battery after the altercation at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the parking of the Publix at Grand Traverse Plaza.
When Wildwood police officers arrived on the scene, they found a 50-year-old Pennsylvania man with blood on his face, streaming from a laceration above his left eyebrow. He admitted to police he had entered the parking lot from the wrong direction as he was driving a golf cart.
That apparently enraged Bowen, who got into the other man’s face and began to argue with him over entering the parking lot in the wrong direction, according to the arrest report.
The Pennsylvania man, who was accompanied by his 12-year-old and 15-year-old daughters, asked Bowen not to curse in front of his children. One of the daughters told police she saw Bowen put her father in a headlock and throw him onto a vehicle. One of the daughters videotaped the incident on a smart phone and it showed Bowen punching her father several times and tossing him onto a car.
Bowen’s wife, who had accompanied her husband to Publix, claimed the Pennsylvania man “would not let it go” and that’s when the fight began.
Bowen was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center and released after posting $1,000 bond.
