LAUREL HILL — A man will be in court Feb. 17 on the charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.
Deputies responded to a Laurel Hill residence late Dec. 30 after a 31-year-old man allegedly attacked his uncle over his belief that his wife had cheated on him with his cousin.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the residence around 9:30 p.m. by James Marcus Owens’ mother, according to the arrest report.
She reported that Owens and his uncle were in a verbal argument about “possible infidelity” between Owens’ wife and cousin.
He told his mother that he was “going to confront and beat up his cousin,” the report said.
Owens then went to the barn where his uncle was residing and “attempted to attack him with a 2X4 piece of lumber,” swinging the wood at his uncle “several times.”
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