A Florida man who dumped two glasses of water on his older brother throughout an argument over Key lime pie, now faces up to 30 years in jail. Lee County resident David Sherman Powelson, 64, was arrested by deputies Wednesday and charged with one depend of first-degree felony aggravated battery.
Updated Feb 24, 2023 | 02:42 PM IST
pA Florida man faces up to 30 years in jail and probably hundreds of {dollars} in wonderful after allegedly dumping two glasses of water on his brother throughout an argument over Key lime pie | David Sherman Powelson’s mugshot courtesy of Lee County Sheriff’s Officep
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- A Florida man accused of throwing water on his brother probably faces up to 30 years in jail.
- Lee County Sheriff’s deputies mentioned an argument occurred after Powelson ate his brother’s Key lime pie.
- He then allegedly dumped two glasses of water on the sufferer to ‘cool him down’.
A felony in the US is taken into account a really severe crime and aggravated battery, which is generally a second-degree felony underneath Florida state regulation, is reclassified as a second-degree offence if the sufferer is older than 65 years with a minimal jail sentence of three years.
Powelson, who faces up to three many years in jail and presumably hundreds of {dollars} in wonderful if convicted, had eaten a pie that his brother — referred to in an affidavit as “the victim” — had been saving.
Deputies with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 name about “physical domestic dispute” round 8:30 pm [local time] after “the victim became upset and an argument ensued,” the possible trigger affidavit acknowledged.
“While sitting in the chair, David [Powelson] emptied two large glasses of water on the victim. The victim feared [Powelson’s] aggressive behavior would lead to him being physically harmed and or killed.”
Upon being requested what precisely occurred, the accused defined to the officers that he determined to eat the Key lime pie as a result of his brother had left it in the fridge for “several days”, inflicting an argument.
“[Powelson] was near the kitchen and decided to fill up a large glass full of water and dump it on the victim’s head to ‘cool him down,’” deputies mentioned. “[The accused] proceeded to fill up another glass and dumped it on the victim in the living room.”
Authorities additionally famous that the older Powelson brother did not undergo any accidents throughout the course of the altercation as a result of “only water was thrown on the victim.”
It stays unclear how the crime of battery was raised to aggravated battery, which is reserved for instances the place somebody “deliberately or knowingly causes nice bodily hurt, everlasting incapacity, or everlasting disfigurement”.