ST. GEORGE – A St. George man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly assaulting another person with a baseball bat.
Gary Reed Edwards, 43, was arrested by the St. George Police Saturday night following an incident that took place in the area of 700 West Sunset Boulevard where some storage units are located, St. George Police Sgt. Sam Despain said.
Around 9 p.m., Edwards had a dispute with other individuals at the storage units over property. During the dispute, Edwards allegedly grabbed a baseball bat and attacked one of the people present. The person hit did not experience severe injuries, Despain said, although she was hit about the neck and shoulders.
According to the probable cause statement filed in connection with the arrest, the other parties involved in the altercation were two women who had been at Edward’s home Friday night until they left after he started “coming onto” them. One of the women told police Edwards repeatedly called and texted them concerning a missing phone and earphones.
At one of the storage units used by one of the women, Edwards drove up and got out of his vehicle yelling at the women. He allegedly shoved one of them, causing her to fall down. He also grabbed one of the women by the head and neck, the probable cause statement said. The woman hit him in the face before being dropped. One of the women started throwing items at him and his vehicle while the other was trying to call police.
At some point during the altercation Edwards had returned to his car.
One of the women then swung a wooden two-by-four at Edwards’ car and broke out a passenger-side window. At this point Edwards is said to have gotten out of the car with what was described as a metallic baseball bat. The probable cause statement reports that Edwards went after the woman who had broken the window, swinging the bat at her. After reportedly hitting her with the bat at least three times, Edwards went back to his car and left the scene.
According to the probable cause statement, the police arrived on the scene and found evidence consistent with the story the women told them. The woman who had been hit with the baseball bat was taken to Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George for examination.
Edwards told the police he didn’t really hit anyone with the baseball bat, the statement said, and that the bat’s use was in self defense.
Edwards was arrested and booked into Washington County’s Purgatory Correctional Facility and charged with one third-degree aggravated assault charge, and one class-B misdemeanor simple assault charge.
Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.
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Wow! He sounds like marriage material! Nice guy.
“DNA test shows….You are not the father!”
Why didn’t this guy file a police report about the phone? He should have kept his cool & asked for the police to come help him recover his property instead of going ballistic
Phone? Don’t believe it. This was over dope. But he wasn’t about to tell the cops “they stole my dope.”
ACTUALLY…. “READ BETWEEN THE LINES”, you are wrong…. Good judgment though… This man got away with beating me with a baseball bat. He came there that day because he lost his cell phone and his BLUE headphone. (which the other victim and I had our own headphones as well as cell phone that were better than the one he misplaced) I was given 3 days notice to make it to the court they couldn’t even get a continuance?? Very strange how the justice system works and maybe that is due to people like you. I suffered PTSD, I cannot sleep at night (even with sleeping medication) I suffer from migraines, and I do not have much motion in my neck…. If this had happened in the state of TEXAS this man would be put away for a very long time… Maybe someday you should experience how it feels to have a grown man swing a bat at the back of your head while you are running away.!!! And yes I sure as …* threw something at his car and broke the window, and Im glad my friend got a punch in as he was man-handling her…. OVER HEAD PHONES!! Instead of “READ BETWEEN THE LINES” maybe it should read “PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR …*”!!!!!
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That is exactly what he should have done but my bet is it was at his house where he left …. Our phones were ALLOT better than his anyways…. He should have sent the police and I would laughed so hard if they found it in his house. But I bet the state would have filled charges on us anyways… Hope he gets to buy a gun now…. That will be fun!!
P>S> If we had drugs we would have been arrested that night for drug possession. I Don’t even remember any of this…. and the cop took like maybe 5-7 minutes to get there… I was in so much pain I couldn’t breath let alone try and get rid of something… And my poor friend gets to go through life with this image of her friend getting BEAT with a METAL BAT!! She said it was the worst thing she has ever seen…. Knocked me down and kept swinging and swinging any less of a person would have been killed… But maybe if I was then he might still be behind bars… Enjoy he lives right next to the sacred Temple!! What a Godly Mormon Man…. PUKE!!
ACTUALLY…. “READ BETWEEN THE LINES”, you are wrong…. Good judgment though… This man got away with beating me with a baseball bat. He came there that day because he lost his cell phone and his BLUE headphone. (which the other victim and I had our own headphones as well as cell phone that were better than the one he misplaced) I was given 3 days notice to make it to the court they couldn’t even get a continuance?? Very strange how the justice system works and maybe that is due to people like you. I suffered PTSD, I cannot sleep at night (even with sleeping medication) I suffer from migraines, and I do not have much motion in my neck…. If this had happened in the state of TEXAS this man would be put away for a very long time… Maybe someday you should experience how it feels to have a grown man swing a bat at the back of your head while you are running away.!!! And yes I sure as …* threw something at his car and broke the window, and Im glad my friend got a punch in as he was man-handling her…. OVER HEAD PHONES!! Instead of “READ BETWEEN THE LINES” maybe it should read “PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR …*”!!!!!
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