An 84-year-old arrested after allegedly using a cane to attack a fellow at an assisted living facility won’t be prosecuted in the case.
The prosecutor’s office announced earlier this month that no information will be filed with regard to a felony charge of battery on a person 65 years of age or older which had been faced by Paul Miner Wenz of Sumter Senior Living on County Road 466A in The Villages. The prosecutor’s indicated it is not pursuing the case due to “victim/witness issues.”
Wenz had been in the cafeteria for breakfast on June 16 when an 85-year-old man approached Wenz and “asked him how he was doing,” according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Wenz told the man he was “tired” of his “BS,” and allegedly used other profanity. He used his walking cane to strike the 85-year-old, the report said.
Wenz was later interviewed by deputies and he admitted he “tapped” the other man. Wenz spent one night at the county jail but was later released on his own recognizance. He was allowed to return to Sumter Senior Living, but a judge ordered him to behave.
