An Ocala woman spent Monday night in jail after allegedly slapping a man during an altercation that ended when the man accompanying her displayed a gun.
A witness told a Marion County sheriff’s deputy that Kelly Lynn Wevodau, 37, and another man came to the location on Northwest Gainesville Road to drop off some of the victim’s belongings. The witness said Wevodau and the victim got into an argument and Wevodau slapped him in the face, and that the man she was with had a firearm. The witness recorded the incident on her cell phone.
The victim corroborated the witness’ account and said the argument started because he was upset that Wevodau showed up with another man.
The deputy reviewed the video and saw Wevodau, wearing a pink shirt, hit the victim in the face, and another witness say, “Why did you have to smack the man like that?”
The deputy did not initially see a firearm but heard the man with Wevodau properly identify himself as a Marion Correctional Institution officer. The video showed the victim and witnesses begin to approach the man in the roadway in a threatening manner, at which point he showed the firearm but never pulled it out, causing everyone to back away.
Wevodau declined to speak to the deputy. She was arrested, charged with simple battery/dating violence and taken to the Marion County Jail, where she was released Tuesday on $500 bond. She’s due in Marion County Court on Feb. 19.