Three neighbors in Rowan County are facing assault charges after deputies said they attacked a man and his girlfriend with a baseball bat.
Nicholas Woolf said he was dropping his girlfriend off at her mother's home in a Kannapolis neighborhood when a man holding a baseball bat blocked the road and told him he was driving too fast.
"I was like, ‘You ain't going to hit my car with the bat,’ so I got out and I was like, ‘Y'all need to move, I'm not going to run you over, I'm not about to get in no trouble,’" Woolf said.
Woolf said the man, William "Marlowe" Sechler, then attacked him, hitting him with the bat.
Deputies said Sechler's fiancée, Angela Schenck, and their neighbor, Curtis Linton, both joined in the attack, choking Woolf and punching his girlfriend.
Hospital records showed Woolf suffered a concussion, neck sprain and chest contusion.
"I'm not scared of many things, but when somebody is beating me in the face and someone is choking me and I can't see, can't breathe, can't move, it got pretty scary," Woolf said.
Sechler told Channel 9, however, that it was actually Woolf who threatened him and his fiancée.
"I went out to confront him. I was like, 'Man you got to slow down, have some respect for our kids. We got signs posted,’" Sechler said. "I was like, 'Man I don't want to break a sweat on this, I'm going hit you with this bat.’"
But Sechler denied using the baseball bat in the actual attack, and said it was Woolf who threw the first punch.
"If I hit somebody in the head with a bat, they would probably be dead," Sechler said. Sechler, Schenck and Linton were all charged with assault.
Woolf said they should have faced more serious criminal charges, telling Channel 9 he was worried they might attack again.
"Not even for me, for anybody that goes down that dirt road," Woolf said.
Nicholas Woolf said he was dropping his girlfriend off at her mother's home in a Kannapolis neighborhood when a man holding a baseball bat blocked the road and told him he was driving too fast.
"I was like, ‘You ain't going to hit my car with the bat,’ so I got out and I was like, ‘Y'all need to move, I'm not going to run you over, I'm not about to get in no trouble,’" Woolf said.
Woolf said the man, William "Marlowe" Sechler, then attacked him, hitting him with the bat.
Deputies said Sechler's fiancée, Angela Schenck, and their neighbor, Curtis Linton, both joined in the attack, choking Woolf and punching his girlfriend.
Hospital records showed Woolf suffered a concussion, neck sprain and chest contusion.
"I'm not scared of many things, but when somebody is beating me in the face and someone is choking me and I can't see, can't breathe, can't move, it got pretty scary," Woolf said.
Sechler told Channel 9, however, that it was actually Woolf who threatened him and his fiancée.
"I went out to confront him. I was like, 'Man you got to slow down, have some respect for our kids. We got signs posted,’" Sechler said. "I was like, 'Man I don't want to break a sweat on this, I'm going hit you with this bat.’"
But Sechler denied using the baseball bat in the actual attack, and said it was Woolf who threw the first punch.
"If I hit somebody in the head with a bat, they would probably be dead," Sechler said. Sechler, Schenck and Linton were all charged with assault.
Woolf said they should have faced more serious criminal charges, telling Channel 9 he was worried they might attack again.
"Not even for me, for anybody that goes down that dirt road," Woolf said.
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