Man charged with assault, domestic violence after altercation with wooden pole

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A 20-year-old Manning man was charged about 9:43 p.m. Jan. 4 with second-degree assault and battery and domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature after the Manning Police Department initially received a call about a disturbance at a home on Boundary Street. According to reports, Patrick Aaron Herb, 20, of 214 E. Keitt St. in Manning, was located outside a Rigby Street business with no shirt on. A 32-year-old man living on Boundary Street told police that Herb and another suspect, a 17-year-old Manning boy, had assaulted him in the head and arm with a wooden pole at the Boundary Street home about 9 p.m. that same day. The alleged victim told police that he did fight back, striking the alleged suspect several times with his fists. The alleged victim also told police that the alleged suspect was swinging the pole at another woman who was holding a baby. Police reported injuries on the alleged victim’s right leg above the knee, on his head and on his inside upper lip. The S.C. Highway Patrol assisted in transporting the alleged suspect back to the scene of the altercation, where the alleged suspect told police that he had been invited to see a child at the home and that he did take a wooden pole inside the home. Asked why, he told police he did not know there would be a fight, but that he could not give a reason for taking the pole inside the home. Police indicated in reports that they could not find the alleged 17-year-old suspect.