PORT ANGELES – Charges have been filed against a Port Angeles man accused of attacking another man with a machete last week.
39-year-old Timothy Williams, listed by prosecutors as a transient, is charged with Assault in the First Degree and threatening to kill Jack Carleson late Saturday night, May 1, in the parking lot at the City Pier.
The victim told police that he and Williams had a confrontation earlier in the day at the same location, in which Williams accused him of being a pedophile. He says Williams drove back to the scene later that night and ordered him out of his car before attacking him, swinging the machete at his head several times as Carleson tried to defend himself with his hands, suffering severe lacerations.
Witnesses say the attacker then sped away in his car. Williams was arrested Monday afternoon and later confessed to the assault, but claimed that Carleson attacked him first, beating him with a stick.
He told police he disposed of the machete in a garbage unit at a nearby hotel, where it was later retrieved by an officer.
Williams is being held on $20,000 bond. Carleson was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with broken bones and lacerations in his hands.