Aug 4, 2006 By The 2 min read

Uniontown police arrested a city man for allegedly cutting the back of another man’s head with a knife in the Family Dollar Store parking lot on North Gallatin Avenue Wednesday night. Charles Edward Beal, 39, who lives in the City Mission on East Fayette Street, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, harassment, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct after he allegedly attacked Jeffrey F. Joseph of Uniontown, police said.

Beal was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Ronald Haggerty Sr. and placed in the Fayette County Prison on $25,000 straight bond. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge Mark Blair.

When officers arrived at the scene at 7:46 p.m., they said Joseph was standing in the lot holding a bleeding cut on the lower part of the back of his head.

The victim told police that he went to the store to buy picture frames for his daughter, but Beal approached him in the lot, according to a police complaint.

He said he was able to avoid Beal the first time he lunged at him with a knife.

However, Beal lunged a second time and struck Joseph in the back of the head, police said.

Police found Beal, who police said had a folding knife with a 3-inch blade in his pocket and blood on his clothes, in front of the Sails Inn on North Gallatin Avenue and arrested him.

Uniontown Fireman’s Ambulance took Joseph to Uniontown Hospital for treatment.