Altercation on Foothill and Pennsylvania

By Mary O’KEEFE

On Saturday at about 2 p.m. Glendale police responded to the 3200 block of Foothill Boulevard regarding a male who was involved in a fight. When officers arrived witnesses pointed to a man, 47, from La Crescenta who was walking westbound on the north sidewalk of Foothill Boulevard. The witnesses said the man was the suspect involved in the altercation.

Officers reported observing the suspect acting in an irate manner as he walked along the sidewalk. They also observed blood on his face. Officers detained the suspect, who refused medical assistance.

Officers interviewed the victim of the fight, along with multiple witnesses whose stories corroborated each other’s, according to a GPD report.

Witnesses stated the victim was in the driver’s seat of his vehicle that was stopped for traffic in the eastbound lanes of Foothill Boulevard just west of Pennsylvania Avenue with the windows of his vehicle rolled down. Suddenly, the suspect ran from a bus bench near the northwest corner of the intersection and lunged into the victim’s vehicle attacking him.

As the suspect was attacking the victim he was saying random things and speaking nonsensically, according to GPD.

The victim and a passenger in the victim’s vehicle began fighting back against the suspect while remaining inside the vehicle.

Eventually the victim was able to position himself inside the vehicle to kick at the suspect in order to get him away. While the victim was kicking the suspect, the suspect grabbed the victim’s leg and bit down leaving small lacerations.

Eventually, according to GPD, the victim was able to kick the suspect away. The suspect then picked up a nearby shopping cart and appeared to prepare to throw it at the victim’s vehicle. The victim armed himself with a wrench; the suspect put the cart down and began walking westbound on Foothill Boulevard until officers were able to detain him.

During the altercation the victim’s vehicle rolled forward and struck a vehicle in front of it at a slow rate of speed.

Officers reported having a difficult time obtaining a statement from the suspect because he would go off on tangents and ramble nonsensically.

The suspect was arrested and booked for assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on $50,000 bail.