Victim said he was not the associate who refused to give him a prize offered in a promotional flier.

SARASOTA — An event salesman who was allegedly attacked by an 83-year-old man with a car and then beaten with a golf club said his black eye is the least of his concerns.

Christian Robertson of Fort Myers said he cannot work until his face heals from the attack and he might not be able to work in Florida for months because of a damaged reputation.

“Now I’m a victim twice,” said Robertson, 48, who said he became an event salesman five years ago because it was more profitable and allowed him to spend more time with his kids.

Linsey D. Owens, 83, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. He is being held without bail at the Sarasota County Jail.

Robertson said he was not the sales associate who helped Owens when he first arrived.

Owens presented his scratch-off ticket at a tent and was rewarded with a $5 Walmart gift card that he threw away.

“He was pissed off he got a gift card,” said Robertson, who has sold cars for 28 years.

Owens argued with employees and left without the gift card, according to Robertson, who said he was helping customers on the other side of the parking lot.

Owens returned about 15 minutes later and drove his car down an aisle where Robertson was helping to appraise cars and bumped him with the side mirror of his car, Robertson said. He then got out of the car and began to open the trunk.

Robertson said three other sales associates approached him but stepped back when they saw Owens had a golf club. He said the salesmen told him to put it back.

“I grabbed my phone and took a video of it,” Robertson said.

The incident could cost Robertson, who said he usually makes around $2,500 at the end-of-the-year event. He is worried he might not be able to find work.

“You can’t sell $30,000 cars with a black eye,” he said. “This not only cost me my paycheck for this week but the week after. Now I’m not working because I have a black eye. Anywhere I go they’re going to say you’re the lazy salesman that pissed off the old guy.

“I did not tell him he had to buy a car to get a prize.”

Robertson said the Sarasota car event gave away about 400 gift cards and 26 grand prizes.

“I’m sitting around my house fielding phone calls about something I had nothing to do with,” he said.

Video from the incident (Warning: Profanity)

This is the video of an 83 yo man attaching a car salesman in Sarasota last nightpic.twitter.com/eMXbrjbMOd

— John Rogers (@WFLAJohn)December 29, 2016

Deputies made contact with Owens at his home and he was taken into custody without incident.