Posted on 04/14/2015 4:08:40 PM PDT by mdittmar
YAKIMA, Wash. — A 32-year-old man who was shopping with at least three children at a Yakima Wal-Mart was the victim of an unprovoked assault when a stranger picked up a metal tee-ball bat and struck him, according to Yakima police.
The victim was not injured, but he did have a concealed weapons permit, which he immediately put to use, police said.
A store security officer reported hearing a man in the sporting goods department yelling “Get on the ground!” and found one man pointing a pistol at another, who was lying on the floor.
Police arrived a short time later and arrested the 30-year-old suspect, who remains in Yakima County jail in lieu of $30,000 bail set Monday.
The incident took place about 11:20 a.m. Saturday at the east Yakima Wal-Mart.
The victim told police he did not know the suspect, nor had the two exchanged any words before he was hit by the bat, according to an affidavit filed by police.
A video from the store’s security system shows the victim shopping with at least three children. According to the affidavit, the video shows some of the children move out of view as a man is seen coming over, picking up a metal tee-ball bat from a rack and striking the other man in the shoulder with it.
The victim, who police said has had a concealed pistol license since March 2013, then pulled a .357 Sig Sauer pistol from a holster and pointed it at the suspect, the affidavit said.
The suspect is a transient and is being held on suspicion of second-degree assault.
” Metal bat could kill you.
Hard not to yank that trigger with all the adrenaline.
Probably his concern for his kids kept him cool.”
A class act.
True nuff.
Makes me smile to think of what those kids must think of their great dad, and how that story will be carried forward in the family for the next couple hundred years.
And he’s earned every telling.
If you shoot him enough times you won't have to yell anything....he WILL get on the ground.
” Gramps was one tough cookie! “
Would be fairly rare to see a black person in east Yakima or any part of Yakima. I least I never do.
See #6.
Agreed steve86. I feel unsafe for that reason whenever I have to go to that Walmart after dark. Glad that the Yakima area still has many conservative, second amendment loving people there. Although I feel that’s changing.
In Yakima a “transient” is in all probability an illegal immigrant.
Um, anybody care to ‘splain this sentence from the “journalist”
“The victim was not injured, but he did have a concealed weapons permit, which he immediately put to use, police said.”
Maybe it’s a contextual thing I don’t get. :>}
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