Woman LAKE, Florida — A suspect was unveiled on bond after staying accused of hitting an additional gentleman with a golf club in Lake County.
Eddie Orobitg was arrested on rates of aggravated battery just after the Sunday incident at Harbor Hills Golfing Program in Girl Lake.
“It was violent. It was actually quite violent,” reported Joseph Sivak, the alleged target in the scenario. “I failed to see substantially of it coming. I didn’t hope it. We had been just out on our wander.”
Sivak says he was strolling with his wife via the Harbor Hills Golfing Program in his neighborhood on Sunday when he listened to anyone coming up powering him.
“Screaming and swearing really belligerently,” Sivak reported. “A good deal of swearing and F-bombs about ‘you really don’t belong on the golfing system. You might be not authorized to wander on it.'”
And from there, Lt. John Herrell with the Lake County Sheriff’s Business office claimed items escalated.
“The defendant made use of his golf club to defeat this dude down,” Herrell said.
Sivak claims he experienced fractures in his face and 3 damaged ribs.
“Possibly forty stitches, mostly in my ear,” he explained. “It was like the lobe was variety of slipping off.”
The suspected attacker Orobitg was ultimately arrested on the golfing program.
“This is unbelievable,” he could be read saying in a deputy’s body camera online video.
In accordance to the arrest report, Orobitg and his son instructed deputies Sivak acquired into his facial area. Orobitg also reported Sivak strike him with his water bottle and tried to just take his clubs. But Orobitg’s son explained his father spat in Sivak’s encounter very first.
“I acquired hit with a golf club a pair occasions. Spit in my confront,” Sivak mentioned. “To have a unique account of what happened, no. That does not surprise me in the the very least.”
Deputies say they took statements from Sivak’s spouse and Orobitg’s son and appeared at the injuries to help them figure out what went down. They say Orobitg experienced a minimize on his hand. Sivak experienced to go to the healthcare facility. He suggests he has months of recovery forward of him.
“It feels very … you’re not risk-free in your personal, you know quiet, safe neighborhood,” Sivak reported. “From people close to the corner dwelling two, a few, 4 blocks away.”
