(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man accused of slapping a 10-year-old boy and punching him on the left eye has been jailed on $5,000 bail.
Jeffrey Lynn Alexander II, 33, was scheduled to appear in court this afternoon on a felony charge of injury to a minor child in Cushing.
Cushing Police Sgt. Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit that at 6:34 p.m. on July 2 he was sent to the 900 block of E. Moses Street on a report of an assault on a child.
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,” the affidavit alleged.
The boy said “Alexander was pushing a stroller and that he pushed the stroller out in front of his friend,” the affidavit alleged.
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 police sergeant wrote in his affidavit.
The boy said that “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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