Man Who Beat Good Samaritan With Baseball Bat Arrested in Dumfries: Police

DUMFRIES, VA — A man who punched a female acquaintance in the face Dec. 23 in the 5200 block of Waterway Drive and later beat a would-be rescuer with a baseball bat was arrested Tuesday after turning himself in, according to Prince William County Police.

Raquese LaQuawan Harris, 24, of the 8200 block of Springwood Meadow Lane in Lorton, was charged with malicious wounding, domestic assault and battery and grand larceny.

Shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 23, police responded to a report of a domestic assault that occurred earlier that night in which a 23-year-old woman got into a fight with Harris, was punched in the face, after which Harris took her iPad and car keys before leaving the area.

She called her friend, a 30-year-old Woodbridge man, to come pick her up but before he arrived Harris returned to the scene and again began arguing with the woman. When the friend got there, Harris got a baseball bat from his car and began using it to repeatedly hit the victim in the head.

Harris then left and the woman took her friend to the hospital and called police.

Harris is being held without bond.

Photo: Prince William County Police