PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A West Palm Beach man is in the St. Lucie County Jail as of May 18 for allegedly striking another man on the head with a gun in Home Depot in Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n
According to police reports, Daniel Edouard, 45, of West Palm Beach, was arrested May 14 by Port St. Lucie Police on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in connection with an incident at a Home Depot in the 2200 block of Southwest Gatlin Boulevard.<\/p>\n
At about 9:30 a.m., May 14, officers went to the Home Depot where a man, who police say was the victim, said that another man, later identified as Edouard, was heard arguing loudly with other people in line at the self-service checkout lane and was using profanity, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
When the man told Eduoard to leave, Eduoard then pulled out a gun from his waistband and told the victim to back up before allegedly striking the victim in the head, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
A witness told police that Eduoard then left the store with a handgun and left in a four-door Jeep.<\/p>\n
A man matching the alleged assailant\u2019s description was later seen by officers at the Robert E. Minsky Gym in the 700 block of Southwest Darwin Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Eduoard told police that he was involved in an incident at Home Depot earlier that day, according to the arrest affidavit. A search of Eduoard did not turn up the firearm allegedly used during the incident, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
Eduoard was in the St. Lucie County Jail as of May 18 on an $100,000 bond, according to jail records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A West Palm Beach man is in the St. Lucie County Jail as of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-277112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}