A Vian man was arrested after allegedly threatening a Marble City couple with a revolver, driving his car into one of them and then running over their prosthetic foot, according to an affidavit filed by the Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s Office.
Travis C. Fieldgrove, 48, was charged on August 20 with feloniously pointing a firearm, assault, battery, or assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, possessing a firearm during commission of a felony, and public intoxication. He received a $30,000 bond and is now set for a September 17 felony disposition docket in Sequoyah County District Court before Associate District Judge Kyle Waters.
Deputies were dispatched around 6:45 p.m. on August 15 to a home on Peoria Ave. in Marble City after a reported assault with a firearm.
The female victim told deputies she and her husband were walking their dogs near their home when a silver Toyota Corolla sped up the hill toward them. She said the car, driven by Fieldgrove, pulled close enough to bump into her husband with its bumper.
The couple told deputies that after an exchange of yell- ing and profanity, the woman threw a rock at the vehicle, breaking its back window. At that point, Fieldgrove reportedly exited the car with a revolver, pointed it at the woman, and allegedly threatened to kill her, repeatedly.
Fieldgrove then allegedly got back into his car, revved the engine and drove straight toward the woman’s husband, pushing him into a ditch and running over his prosthetic foot before leaving the scene. Deputies documented fresh tire marks leading up to the ditch, as well as a black tire mark across the man’s right foot.
Deputies Colton Goff, Jarett Cannon and Austin Blackfox later located Fieldgrove at a residence on Sequoyah Street, where he was found standing in front of a silver Toyota Corolla wearing blue overalls with no shirt — matching the couple’s description of what Fieldgrove was wearing at he time of the incident.
Goff reported that Fieldgrove smelled strongly of alcohol, was bleeding from his arm and “argumentative and refusing to obey orders.” Fieldgrove initially claimed that the woman had shot at him, later admitting she had thrown a rock.
When asked about the firearm, Fieldgrove said it was a .22 caliber revolver inside the car but continued to approach the vehicle against deputies’ orders before being handcuffed. Deputies later located a box of .22 caliber ammunition on the passenger seat but did not find the weapon. They also observed a bag of suspected marijuana on the center console.
Witnesses at the residence told deputies that Fieldgrove had arrived earlier, angry and waving a revolver. He then allegedly pointed the weapon at a woman at the residence, shouting, before speeding away and later returning. The woman at the residence requested that Fieldgrove be trespassed from the property, and deputies issued a trespass warning.
Photographs were taken of the tire marks and the man’s injured foot as evidence.
Fieldgrove was booked into the Sequoyah County Detention Center and later pled not guilty.
District Attorney Jack Thorp said the charge of feloniously pointing a firearm is punishable by imprisonment for one to 10 years; while assault, battery, or assault and battery with a dangerous weapon carries a sentence of up to 10 years in the penitentiary. or one year in the county jail. Thorp said possessing a firearm during commission of a felony is punishable by imprisonment for two to 10 years.
