A man with a baseball bat attacked a customer leaving a Walmart on Monday morning, according to Lake City police.
Emory Alford told officers he was walking to his car in the far end of the parking lot about 9:50 a.m. when Jacob Henry Jr. approached him with a bat. Alford and witnesses say that Henry didn't say or demand anything before he began swinging the bat.
Police say James Maness was using a car wash across the street when he witnessed the attack and ran to assist Alford. At that point Henry ran away, dropping the bat several rows away.
Police, joined by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department and K-9 teams from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Department of Corrections, tracked Henry. The dogs found Henry several hours later inside a former Sears building.
Henry, 29, was arrested without incident and transported to the Columbia County Detention Center, where he was booked on charges of felony aggravated battery and burglary to a structure.
Lake City police say Alford was taken to Lake City Medical Center, then transferred by air ambulance to Shands Medical Center in Gainesville. His condition was not available, but he was still hospitalized on Tuesday afternoon.
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