A Peachtree

City man has been arrested for assaulting another man with a baseball

bat at Harmony Village Apartments.

Gerald Benjamin,

30, of Peachtree City, was arrested Aug. 14 for aggravated assault and

burglary. Police say he entered an apartment at Harmony Village where

Darrell A. Black of Newnan was staying and struck him with the bat.

Benjamin struck

Black with the bat while he was in a bed on Wednesday, Aug. 8, DuPree

said.

The assault

stemmed from a domestic incident that had occurred earlier, said Maj.

Mike DuPree of the Peachtree City Police Department. The burglary charge

was for entering the apartment to commit a crime, DuPree added.

The case is

still under investigation, DuPree said.

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