J.D. Gallop

FLORIDA TODAY

A 46-year-old man was jailed after police said he used a machete to slash a Melbourne man on the face during a confrontation over slamming doors and waking him up.

Melbourne Police said the attack left the victim with a bloody gash across his lower jaw and neck. The injuries were non-threatening but described by officers as causing ‘permanent disfigurement,’ reports show.

Tyrone Plummer, of Palm Bay, was charged with aggravated battery after police officers were called about 5 a.m. Sunday to a home in the 900 block of Juanita Circle, Melbourne to investigate a disturbance involving a man with a machete. Police arrived and found the victim who told officers that Plummer, "cut me with a machete."

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Officers said Plummer, the son of the property’s owner, was visiting the home and was sleeping when he began to complain to the tenant about the sound of a door being slammed repeatedly and waking him up. Police said the two began to argue outside, standing chest to chest in the dark, when the victim pushed Plummer back. Within moments the victim – who did not see the machete – felt the slash across his face and then ran back inside the home, reports show.

Plummer told officers that the victim was ‘a 300-pound man,’ and that he ‘had to do what he had to do,’ records show.

Plummer was booked into the Brevard County Jail Complex in Sharpes where he was ordered held without bond.

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