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Carl Jackson Turner Jr., 36, faces an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge. He remains in the Brazos County Jail on a $10,000 bond, jail records show.

Carl Jackson Turner Jr., 36, faces an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge. He remains in the Brazos County Jail on a $10,000 bond, jail records show.

A 36-year-old man was arrested on Texas A&M University’s campus Tuesday after he allegedly attacked a co-worker with a pitchfork.

Carl Jackson Turner Jr., 36, now faces an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge. He remains in the Brazos County Jail on a $10,000 bond, jail records show.

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According to Lt. Allan Baron, a spokesman for the Texas A&M University Police Department, Turner assaulted a woman with a pitchfork around 12:45 p.m. at an on-campus facility in the 500 block of College Avenue.

Baron could offer few details about the events leading up to Turner’s arrest, but a report from the Bryan Eagle says Turner, an employee for a Texas A&M contractor, first punched the woman in the eye after she tried to break up a fight between himself and another man over some pitchforks.

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Turner told police the woman was reaching for a knife after he punched her, so he grabbed a pitchfork and hit her with it in the back, shoulders and buttocks. Then he threw it at her, hitting her legs, according to the Eagle.

He was arrested at the scene and taken to jail.

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