A 61-year-old man allegedly assaulted three people at a Bedok coffee shop on Friday (Sept 4), injuring two women and leaving one bleeding, before pushing two police officers who responded to the incident.
In response to AsiaOne’s queries, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said it received a call at 7.45pm for assistance at Block 204 Bedok North Street 1.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the man had been involved in a minor altercation with a 32-year-old man and two women, aged 29 and 25. Two bystanders stepped in and tried to stop the man.
When officers arrived, they found several men engaged in a scuffle and intervened to break it up.
The 61-year-old man then pushed two officers and knocked the spectacles off one of them. He also uttered vulgarities at another officer, said the police.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force AsiaOne that two people were taken to Changi General Hospital, while two others sustained minor injuries but declined to be taken to the hospital.
Man allegedly assaulted female employee
A diner, surnamed Liu (transliterated), told Shin Min that “the man even pushed the officers”.
According to Liu, the man was believed to have consumed two or three bottles of beer before getting into an argument with a female employee at the coffee shop.
The pair allegedly grappled for a while before the stall owner arrived about half an hour later and asked the man what had happened.
After the man said a few words, the female employee interjected, which allegedly caused him to become agitated and hit the stall owner.
Liu said her friend saw the stall owner’s spectacles being knocked off during the assault.
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