(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Payne County judge on Monday ordered a mental competency evaluation for a Cushing man accused of slapping a 10-year-old boy and punching him on the left eye in July.
Jeffrey Lynn Alexander II, 34, was listed as homeless on three new charges filed against him today.
Alexander allegedly kicked and destroyed an exterior air condition unit belonging to Love Inc. in Cushing on Dec. 5 that caused damages of approximately $2,072.90, according to a malicious injury to property charge.
Alexander allegedly broke a window at the AT&T building in Cushing and entered with intent to steal property on Dec. 8, according to a second-degree burglary charge.
Alexander allegedly stole two garage door tracks from Cimarron Glass in Cushing on Dec. 9, according to a petit larceny charge.
All of those incidents occurred while Alexander was free on $5,000 bail on a injury to minor charge, court records show.
Last summer, Cushing Police Chief Sgt. Adam Harp was sent to the 900 block of E. Moses Street at 6:34 p.m. on July 2 on a report of an assault on a child, court records show.
A 10-year-old boy said that he and two other boys “were riding their bikes down the street near Oak and Thompson heading to the store when Jeffrey Alexander assaulted him,” Harp wrote in an affidavit.
The boy said “Alexander was pushing a stroller and that he pushed the stroller out in front of his friend,” the affidavit said.
The boy said “Alexander slapped him in the face and then hit him in the eye,” the affidavit alleged.
The boy “had a developing bruise and redness around the entire left eye where he alleges that Alexander hit him,” the affidavit said.
The boy said “he knew it was Alexander and he said that the family knows him,” the affidavit alleged.
The other two boys gave the same account that Alexander hit the 10-year-old in the eye, the affidavit alleged.
After speaking to the boys, the police sergeant located Alexander riding a bicycle in the 800 block of E. Oak Street, the affidavit said.
Alexander denied hitting the boy, who he said “was mouthing off to him and called him names,” the affidavit alleged.
Alexander said that the boy “does not like him and thinks that is why he is accusing him of hitting him,” the affidavit alleged.
The boy “is only 10-years-old, about 4’8” tall and weighs only about 72 pounds, compared to Alexander, who is 33-years-old, about 6’ tall and about 160 pounds,” the affidavit said.
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