WESTPORT — A local man has been arrested after punching a person over 60 years old, inflicting a head laceration, during a disturbance earlier this week, police said.
David Lowrie, 59, was charged Aug. 14 with second-degree assault on an elderly person and disorderly conduct.
Police were dispatched to a local residence shortly before 6 p.m. Aug. 14 to investigate the report of a disturbance. During the argument, according to the police report, Lowrie “punched a person causing that individual to sustain a head laceration. The injured party was over 60 years old.”
After his arrest, Lowrie was held on $50,000 bond and transported the next day for arraignment on the charges at state Superior Court in Stamford.
As this remains the most popular article on the site after nearly a week…
If the puncher was 59 and the punchee was “over 60,” do we really know that the punchee was “elderly?”
The headline is a little dramatic, as it suggests some young guy slugged Grandpa and caused brain damage. If the the injury was the “laceration,” it just sounds like a couple of peers got into a scuffle and one got the worst of it!
If you’re going to publish a crime blotter (and I *love* reading the crime blotter!) could we have meaningful details? The “who, what, when, where, why” details!
Connecticut General Statutes Sec. 53a-61a establishes that it is a crime to assault an elderly person. It defines elderly as a person 60 years old. That is why the person is charged with that additional crime.