Fight with son costs father 10 days
A father will serve 10 days behind bars for assaulting his 15-year-old son over the summer during an argument over mowing the lawn.
The suspect, Christopher Caswell, 35, entered a guilty plea to the charge of aggravated assault before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley and was directed to serve 10 days with the remainder of his three-year sentence to be spent on probation. He was also ordered to attend parenting classes and undergo anger management courses.
Caswell’s conviction comes after Caswell and his teen-age son argued when the mower malfunctioned while the boy was mowing their lawn on Pike Hill Road. A fight then broke out between father and son with the father eventually pulling a gun and threatening to shoot the boy. Lawmen say the father struck the boy with the gun during the altercation.
The situation was defused by the boy’s stepmother, who put him in her car and drove away before the situation could escalate to shots being fired. However, the teen did receive a broken nose during the fight.