Gas Station Attendant Charged In Golf Club Assault

A Fort Lee man was slapped with assault and weapons charges Tuesday after he allegedly hit a co-worker at a local gas station with a golf club, authorities said.

Palwinder Singh, 25, was charged with aggravated assault in the alleged incident, which occurred Tuesday at about 4:30 p.m. at the at 1196 Anderson Ave. directly across from , according to police.

Police responded to the scene after receiving a call of a fight in progress at the gas station, but when they got there, officers determined that the incident couldn’t really be described as a “fight” at all, said Capt. Keith Bendul of the .

“They determined that there was an assault that took place between two co-workers [both employees of the gas station], where the party that was charged struck the other co-worker with a golf club,” Bendul said. “There was a physical assault that occurred just before that, and then [Singh] retrieved a golf club and struck the victim in the back and the legs.”

Bendul added, “We got the call as a fight; the victim in this case wouldn’t be considered to have been fighting.”

The alleged victim, a 45-year-old Fort Lee man, whose name police did not release, was transported to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

Bendul said the golf club used in the alleged attack was considered by police to be a “weapon” in the incident, so Singh was additionally charged with possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.

“[A golf club] is obviously not a prohibited weapon like an assault firearm or something along those lines, but any item used in the commission of an assault becomes a weapon,” Bendul explained.

Singh was being held at the Bergen County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail as of Wednesday, police said.