A disgruntled construction employee working at a Wal-Mart site in Florida was convicted of injuring his boss with a bulldozer and burying him in soil. Deputies arrested Cox on charges of aggravated battery.
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The confrontation started Wednesday morning between Cox, 32, and his boss, Perry Byrd, 57, at a construction site in the 100 block of North Charles R. Beall Boulevard, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. Workers say Cox then got out of the front-end loader, grabbed a six-foot level and hit Byrd in the head so hard, he was knocked unconscious.
“Cox proceeded to back up the loader and scoop up more dirt and again dump the load of dirt on top of Byrd, which covered nearly half his body”, the report said.
A level appears to be a weapon of choice for Cox who was accused of using one in a 2003 beating.
Heckman said he saw Cox and Byrd arguing at about 7:15 a.m. and while operating the front-end loader, Cox purposefully dumped a load of dirt on Byrd, the report said.
Caller: “Please hurry somebody come out here, he just hit him with a level and is about to kill him”. He’s been fired by the construction company, WESH reports. “The guy’s trying to kill him on my job”. According to police, he says dumping dirt on Byrd was an accident. He was taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail where he was later released after posting $5,000 bail.
Cox goes by the nickname of “Pork Chop”, according to the Orlando Sentinel. He was charged with battery domestic violence but she later said she did not wish to proceed with charges, and no charges were filed.
When interviewed by a deputy, Cox said he had a colorful exchange with his boss, according to the Sheriff’s Office report.
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Cox told the deputy he continued moving dirt to “where it was needed in the area of where Byrd was standing”.
