Officers were dispatched around 4:25 p.m. Thursday to the 800 block of West Jefferson Street for the report of an assault with injuries, according to an affidavit filed in the case.
When police arrived they spoke with Wyatt who said he was assaulted and was bleeding from his face. He told police he was babysitting four children for a man. He said he woke up from a nap and noticed his eyeglasses were broken, so he became upset and started talking to the children, according to an affidavit filed in municipal court.
During this time, the man arrived at his house to pick up the children. Wyatt said the man approached him and grabbed him by the throat, causing them to get into a physical altercation. After the assault, Wyatt said the man and children began to leave the residence when he got his pistol and fired a gunshot inside the house “in self-defense,” the affidavit stated.
Officers searched the house for damage from the bullet but were unable to find anything until Wyatt “moved a box which was concealing the bullet hole” that he was hiding because “he did not want to go to jail,” according to the affidavit.
Officers then spoke with the other man who said when he arrived at the house to pick up his children, he could hear Wyatt yelling at them about the broken glasses, which is when they got into the altercation.
“(The man) stated as he and his four children were exiting the front door, one gunshot was heard inside the residence. He stated the bullet exited the residence and almost struck him and his young children,” the affidavit stated.
Wyatt was then arrested on five counts of felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence.
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