Crime & Safety
Gas Station Attendant Charged In Golf Club Assault
Police originally received a call of a fight between co-workers at a gas station on Anderson Avenue. Seven officers responded and determined that it wasn't much of a fight, charging one of the men with assault.
A Fort Lee man was slapped with assault and weapons charges Tuesday after he allegedly hit a co-worker at a local gas station with a golf club, authorities said.
Palwinder Singh, 25, was charged with aggravated assault in the alleged incident, which occurred Tuesday at about 4:30 p.m. at the at 1196 Anderson Ave. directly across from , according to police.
Police responded to the scene after receiving a call of a fight in progress at the gas station, but when they got there, officers determined that the incident couldn’t really be described as a “fight” at all, said Capt. Keith Bendul of the .
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“They determined that there was an assault that took place between two co-workers [both employees of the gas station], where the party that was charged struck the other co-worker with a golf club,” Bendul said. “There was a physical assault that occurred just before that, and then [Singh] retrieved a golf club and struck the victim in the back and the legs.”
Bendul added, “We got the call as a fight; the victim in this case wouldn’t be considered to have been fighting.”
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The alleged victim, a 45-year-old Fort Lee man, whose name police did not release, was transported to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Bendul said the golf club used in the alleged attack was considered by police to be a “weapon” in the incident, so Singh was additionally charged with possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.
“[A golf club] is obviously not a prohibited weapon like an assault firearm or something along those lines, but any item used in the commission of an assault becomes a weapon,” Bendul explained.
Singh was being held at the Bergen County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail as of Wednesday, police said.
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