Amputee dad says son beat him over refusal to buy cigar

A Fort Myers man has been arrested after deputies said he beat his amputee father and pointed a gun at him over a refusal to let him use a debit card to buy a cigar.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office said the father of Douglas St. Onge, 24, reported that he and his son had been having an extended argument on Sunday.

St. Onge demanded to use his father's debit card and when his father refused, he became angry, the sheriff's report said.

The father, who uses a wheelchair, told deputies that his son tried to pull the debit card from his pants and then beat him and pulled him from his wheelchair, dragging him around the house.

The report said the son then got a handgun from his father's room and pointed it at him. However, St. Onge accidentally hit the "break down" slide and rendered the gun unusable. Deputies said there had been three live rounds in the gun's clip.

Deputies said the father had injuries consistent with being beaten and dragged around.

They arrested St. Onge for battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.