2 women wanted the same parking spot at Market Basket. Now 1 is facing assault charges.
The altercation occurred at the Market Basket in Danvers.
A 72-year-old woman says she was hit in the head with a small purse after a parking spot dispute at the Danvers Market Basket on Saturday.Elaine Moore-Oullette told WCVB she was waiting to pull into a handicapped-accessible parking space when another customer, later identified as Donna Rowe, 57, pulled into the spot instead.Moore-Oullette says she then decided to pull up alongside Rowe to let her know that she had been waiting for another car to pull out of the space so she could use it.Rowe “jibbered and jabbered,” Moore-Oullette said in a separate interview with CBS Boston.
“So I said, ‘I’m not going to argue with her,’” she told the news station.
Moore-Oullette says she found a different handicapped-accessible spot and then walked into the supermarket.
She heard Rowe say something as she walked through the first set of doors. That’s when she felt “something very hard” hit her in the head, she said.
“I put my hand here,” she said, gesturing over her eye in the interview with WCVB, “because it felt wet and there was all blood all over my hand and everything.”
There’s still a noticeable cut over Moore-Oullette’s eye, visible in the interview footage.
Rowe fled, but a Market Basket employee grabbed her license plate number, according to WCVB.
She faces assault and battery-related charges, CBS Boston reports. It’s the 84th time she’s headed to court on charges, according to documents obtained by the news station.
