Police: Face-painted driver strikes pedestrian while whooping, hollering

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - A Bartlesville man was sent to the hospital Tuesday night after a car driven by a man wearing black and white face paint struck him and dragged him for 100 feet before fleeing the scene, according to police.

Police later arrested 20-year-old Andrew Joseph Davis, the alleged driver, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and a felony count of hit and run.

Davis appeared Wednesday in Washington County District Court where the judge set his bond at $25,000 and ordered him back for a Friday appearance.

According to the affidavit, shortly after 10 p.m. police were dispatched to the 3800 block of N.E. Ohio Avenue where a car had reportedly struck a pedestrian and fled the scene.

The officer arriving on scene found a man lying on the ground with “multiple bleeding abrasions to his entire body.” An ambulance arriving at the scene transported the man to Jane Phillips Medical Center for treatment.

Witnesses told police the victim, their neighbor, had been walking northbound on the west side of Ohio when a black sedan also traveling northbound swerved from the east side of the road and struck him. Neighbors said the car then drug the man approximately 100 feet into a neighbor's yard before backing up and fleeing the area.

One neighbor reportedly said the two occupants in the car were yelling “Woop! Woop!” during the incident. He told police he had seen the car two-and-a-half or three hours earlier driving slowly past the house and had noticed its driver was wearing black and white face paint.

Another neighbor that had witnessed the event and who had called police after checking on the man's condition told police the car's occupants had been yelling throughout the incident.

After obtaining a description of the vehicle, police located and stopped a black sedan on the 1500 block of Tuxedo Boulevard. Its driver, identified as Davis, they saw was wearing black and white face paint.

Davis reportedly told police he had accelerated to get away from the man whom he said had approached his vehicle for an unknown reason and punched him in the face.

The condition of the alleged victim is unknown at this time.