A case of mistaken identity apparently led to an attack at a gas station Monday in which a 40-year-old man was hit in the head with an electric saw and his son was threatened with an axe.
“I’m sorry. I thought you were somebody else,” the attacker reportedly told the father and son before jumping back into her truck and fleeing.
The assault occurred shortly after 2 p.m. at the K&S Oil gas station at 705 West 11th street.
Joe Rowen, 22, and his father, Jerry Best, had driven separately to the store to get gas when an older pickup pulled quickly into the parking lot and stopped in front of Rowen’s vehicle.
A woman got out of the truck, yelling as she approached Rowen with an axe in hand, Coffeyville police reported.
“Rowen said he could not remember what was being said but only understood ‘You ****’ while she was raising the axe at him,” the report says. “Rowen feared for his life and felt the female was going to harm him with the axe.”
Best tried to come to his son’s defense, yelling at the woman to stop.
The assailant threw her axe in the bed of her pickup truck and then retrieved an electric saw, the report says.
“The woman is grabbing it from the saw end and swings it at Best and strikes him with it on the left side of his head, causing a laceration,” the report says.
After a brief struggle, the father and son got the saw away from the woman, who apologized for her mistake and fled.
Police later seized the saw. The father planned to drive himself to the hospital for possible stitches, the report says.
The report describes the assailant suspect as white, about 5 feet 6 inches and 110 pounds. She was wearing a cutoff, red, Hooters T-shirt and jeans and was driving a primer-colored mid-’70s pickup with a possible partial license plate of WWJ7
“I’m sorry. I thought you were somebody else,” the attacker reportedly told the father and son before jumping back into her truck and fleeing.
The assault occurred shortly after 2 p.m. at the K&S Oil gas station at 705 West 11th street.
Joe Rowen, 22, and his father, Jerry Best, had driven separately to the store to get gas when an older pickup pulled quickly into the parking lot and stopped in front of Rowen’s vehicle.
A woman got out of the truck, yelling as she approached Rowen with an axe in hand, Coffeyville police reported.
“Rowen said he could not remember what was being said but only understood ‘You ****’ while she was raising the axe at him,” the report says. “Rowen feared for his life and felt the female was going to harm him with the axe.”
Best tried to come to his son’s defense, yelling at the woman to stop.
The assailant threw her axe in the bed of her pickup truck and then retrieved an electric saw, the report says.
“The woman is grabbing it from the saw end and swings it at Best and strikes him with it on the left side of his head, causing a laceration,” the report says.
After a brief struggle, the father and son got the saw away from the woman, who apologized for her mistake and fled.
Police later seized the saw. The father planned to drive himself to the hospital for possible stitches, the report says.
The report describes the assailant suspect as white, about 5 feet 6 inches and 110 pounds. She was wearing a cutoff, red, Hooters T-shirt and jeans and was driving a primer-colored mid-’70s pickup with a possible partial license plate of WWJ7