SAN DIEGO, Calif., (Reuters)
Teach a man to fish and
he will eat for the rest of his life. Give Nicholas Vitalich a
fish and he will hit his girlfriend with it, police here said.
Vitalich, 24, was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly
weapon after he allegedly beat his 21-year-old girlfriend with a
large tuna after an argument in a supermarket, San Diego police
spokesman Bill Robinson said.
Robinson told Reuters Vitalich was also charged with resisting
arrest because he fought with officers when they tried to
apprehend him.
"The woman had left the store after the argument and was out in
the parking lot when the male approached her and struck her with
a large tuna," Robinson said.
"When officers got there she had a cut above her eye, bruising
on her right arm and cuts on both legs, from where
she was knocked to the ground," Robinson added.
Robinson said witnesses told the officers that the Vitalich
"repeatedly hit her with this large fish."
He said the fish was fresh, not frozen, but considered a deadly
weapon in the same way shoes or teeth can be weapons. Robinson
said Vitalich was arrested by officers a short distance from the
supermarket.
