A Carlsbad bar patron is “very lucky” that a bouncer’s stunning point-blank tasershot at his face didn’t “substantially injure” him, prosecutors said Thursday.
Both of the taser’s probes hit 21-year-old Robert Pulito’s left eye, leaving him writhing in pain on the ground, according to video of the attack.
The bouncer, David Marquez, shot Pulito after he had been asked to leave a San Diego bar while he was drinking and celebrating a FIFA win.
Marquez has since been charged with three felonies, including assault with a stun gun.
“The victim is very lucky in this case,” Deputy District Attorney Kimberly Coulter said in court.
“The probes from the stun gun hit him at the very corner of the inside of his left eye and about a centimeter or so below the middle of his left eye. At this time, there is no evidence that there has been substantial injury, [but] should there have been, we would have been asking for remand and no bail,” Coulter said.
The bouncer’s attack on the man was caught on video the evening of June 24 at the Park 101 bar. Marquez is seen aiming and firing a stun gun at Pulito, who then collapsed to the ground as bystanders attended to him.
Marquez was booked into the Vista County jail after officers arrived to arrest him before 8:30 p.m. that night. He’s also been fired from his job at the bar.
Two bar patrons said the establishment was packed for a World Cup game that night, NBC 7 San Diegoreported. “For the Mexico game… I’ve never seen so many people here,” one man said.
Prosecutors found a separate social media video of Marquez involved in a fight with a bar patron on the same day, they said.
Marquez has a 2006 misdemeanor case for domestic violence, according to court records.
He’s scheduled to appear back in court next month.
The post Harrowing details emerge after SoCal bouncer fired taser into man’s face at point-blank range appeared first on New York Post.
