By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 43-year-old Cushing man accused of punching a male employee of Grand Lake Mental Health Hospital in Stillwater in the face has been jailed on $10,000 bond pending a Feb. 24 preliminary hearing on the felony charge.
If convicted of assault and battery on an emergency medical care provider, Troy Scott Davis could be given as much as a two-year prison term and a $1,000 fine, court records show.
Davis was arrested shortly after midnight on Jan. 13 — about 24 minutes after two officers were sent to the Stillwater hospital regarding an assault that had just occurred, according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer James Hansen.
The injured employee “had an extremely swollen left eye, which already had deep bruising and an abrasion to his left cheek bone area,” the affidavit said.
The employee said, “he was conducting his required duties of taking photographs of each patient. While he was taking photographs, Troy approached him, in what (the employee) described as an aggressive manner. He stated that Troy stated, ‘What the f… are you doing?’ (He) stated he told Troy what he was doing, and Troy became visibly agitated.
“(The employee) began to back away from Troy and backed into a chair. He stated he took a sidestep to continue backing away from Troy. He stated that Troy then hit him in his left eye with a closed fist knocking him to the ground. (He) stated another patient ran up to Troy and was trying to stop Troy’s behavior, and (the employee) tried to separate them.
“(The employee) stated that Troy then grabbed him and threw him to the ground, and he struggled to regain his footing. He stated that employees rushed into the room and were able to get between Troy and (the employee),” the affidavit alleged.
The employee’s eye was “extremely red, swollen and bruising. The abrasion to his left cheekbone appears to have been caused from the punch and striking the side of (the employee’s) glasses then rubbing his face,” the affidavit alleged.
“Troy made several odd statements about why he assaulted (the employee),” Officer Hansen was told by Officer Jacob Rivera, the affidavit alleged.
“Troy then stated to me that they wouldn’t let him leave and that’s all he wanted. I had noticed blood on the floor when I originally walked into the patient room. I asked whom the blood belonged to, and I was told it was Troy’s. I saw Troy had a busted knuckle on his right hand, which had blood around it,” Officer Hansen alleged in his affidavit.
