A man punched another person walking in Old Town in the overnight hours of July 25 during a confrontation sparked by a claim that someone threw a beer bottle at a passing taxi, the Park City Police Department said.
The police received the report late in the afternoon on July 25. The incident occurred at approximately 2 a.m. that day. The victim, a Park City resident whose age was not available, told the police he was walking home from a bar on Main Street with two other people when a taxi passed him on Park Avenue close to Miners Hospital.
The taxi stopped and two men, described as angry and screaming, got out, Ryan said. The two from the taxi claimed one of the pedestrians threw the beer bottle at the vehicle. The three men who were walking denied throwing a bottle, Ryan said.
The suspect then punched one of the pedestrians, the captain said. It was not clear whether the person who reportedly threw the punch was the taxi driver.
The victim suffered a cut to the bridge of his nose, caused by the assailant hitting his glasses, according to Ryan.
The episode occurred on Sullivan Road, a tiny street that borders City Park and is close to Miners Hospital.
The police said the victim knows the suspect and wants to press charges. The suspect is a Park City man whose age was not known. Ryan said the police are considering charging the man with simple assault.
The confrontation occurred approximately nine hours before another altercation in the same vicinity. At just after 11 a.m. that day, the police reported, a pedestrian trying to cross Park Avenue on the 1300 block and a driver who did not slow down engaged each other.
The pedestrian gave the driver an obscene gesture, the driver stopped, the two exchanged words and the driver punched the pedestrian in the face several times, the police said.