Police seek man who insulted woman before slapping her in Ann Arbor parking structure
Ann Arbor police are looking for a man suspected of slapping a Dearborn Heights woman in the face after she confronted him following a series of insults.
Ann Arbor police Lt. Renee Bush said the man was in his car on the second floor of the Maynard Street Parking Structure, 324 Maynard St., at 2:20 a.m. Sunday when he used an expletive to insult the woman. The woman approached the car and asked him what he said, Bush said.
The man responded by again using the explicit insult and reached out of his car window and slapped her in the face, Bush said. The woman opened the car door to get to the man, but he drove away at a high rate of speed, causing the woman to fall down and injure her shoulder, Bush said.
The woman also scraped her knee in the incident, but she refused medical attention, according to Bush.
The man is described as white, approximately 21 years old with straight, short brown hair and a medium build. He is about 5-feet-8 inches tall and weighs about 170 pounds, Bush said.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to call the Ann Arbor police anonymous tip line at 734-794-6939.
Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at kylefeldscher@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.
Comments
jooceefroot
Sun, May 27, 2012 : 1 p.m.
5 foot 8 inches. That explains a lot.
GreektownDave
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 8:08 p.m.
Perhaps Kyle can do some research on this and correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm sitting in MY car and another person opens my car door in an attempt to "get at" me, regardless whether I verbally insulted them first or not, isn't that person the physical aggressor and guilty of an attempted assault or at least trespassing? Kyle?
Frustrated in A2
Wed, May 23, 2012 : 3:19 a.m.
Makes sense to me. If I went and confronted everybody who called me a name I'd be getting in fights everyday as well.
GoNavy
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 8:43 p.m.
Uh oh, I predict thought removal on this one. Similar viewpoints have been voiced and promptly removed.
GoNavy
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 2:37 p.m.
The thought moderators are out in force this morning on this thread.
JSA
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 12:32 p.m.
Whatever happened to using the word "alleged" when reporting a story like this. The reality is that other than the two induviduals involved nobody knows what happened. Sloppy reporting.
u812
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 9:43 p.m.
if it's reported or commented on Ann Arbor.com it's a Fact.
JSA
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 3:22 p.m.
PattyinYpsi, The police officer related what she was told by the woman involved. The police officer related what she was told, not what she or anyone else saw. Read the article again.
PattyinYpsi
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 1:49 p.m.
The details of the story are attributed to a police officer, who related them to the reporter, and the man is described as "suspected of slapping" in the first paragraph. I think the reporter did his job on this one.
RunsWithScissors
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 12:31 p.m.
Most of these comments seem to be blaming the victim. No doubt they'll be removed once they've spotted by annarbor.com staff.
djm12652
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 8:07 p.m.
lucky for him...it was her and not me...
cinnabar7071
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 12:39 p.m.
I think the comments were concern for her safety, this could have got alot worse by her actions. Lucky for her the thug didn't want to take it to the next level and drove off.
anti-thug
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 12:32 a.m.
right crime is going down at a record ,low....
Billy
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 12:16 a.m.
There are three sides to every story. Your side, my side...and the truth. I would like to hear the "assailant's" description of the scenario too.
Ignatz
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 12:11 a.m.
I wouldn't refer to him as a man. He doesn't seem much like one.
ranger007
Mon, May 21, 2012 : 11:53 p.m.
I can only imagine the things that will happen in the underground parking structure ...that's one place ill avoid after dark.
alex
Wed, May 23, 2012 : 6:04 a.m.
i don't think being underground would make any difference to a criminal. Just because you're in daylight at the top of a structure doesn't mean that someone won't rob/hurt you. I don't understand your logic.
Ron Granger
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 1:23 p.m.
It's underground. How could you even tell whether the sun was up or down?
lynel
Mon, May 21, 2012 : 11:18 p.m.
With all of the recent incidents in parking structures it might be time to install security cameras.
djm12652
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 8:05 p.m.
Only if it can be considered "artistic"....
ypsi
Tue, May 22, 2012 : 6:09 a.m.
The only camera's they have in the structures are on their employees!