MOORHEAD — A confrontation outside a Burger King in south Moorhead on Friday, April 26, put one man in the hospital and another in jail.

The conflict started when a vehicle was turning to go west onto 24th Avenue South, but the driver didn't see two pedestrians who were not in a designated crosswalk, Moorhead police said in a news release.

One of the pedestrians, Joshua Carney, gave the male driver and female passenger in the vehicle "the middle finger with both hands," the female passenger then returned the same gesture, police said.

When the vehicle stopped at a red light on Eighth Street South, Carney approached the female passenger's window and started a verbal argument. The driver left the vehicle and saw that Carney was holding a folding knife with the blade out, police said.

The male driver then grabbed "a piece of oak lumber" about 2.5 feet long, and the female passenger told the driver to get back in the vehicle and that she had called police, police said.

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Carney then saw the vehicle outside of the Burger King, 2412 8th St. S., and walked over. The male driver got out of his vehicle, and Carney who had landscaping rocks in his clenched fist struck him in the face, causing noticeable injuries, police said.

The victim, a 31-year-old man from Moorhead, went to a local hospital on his own to seek treatment, police said.

Carney was arrested on second-degree assault with a weapon, third-degree assault causing significant injury, fifth-degree assault, and disorderly conduct.

Carney has a history of assault convictions, court records show.

In Minnesota, Carney was convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault in 2007. In a separate case the same year, Carney pleaded guilty to fifth-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and terroristic threats, a felony. He was convicted in 2010 of domestic assault, a felony.

North Dakota court records show he was convicted in 2007 of simple assault on emergency medical services personnel, a felony.