A cyclist has been charged with battery and jailed after an altercation along Glenn-Kelly Road at the Chickamauga Battlefield, according to a news release from the National Park Service.
Charles Givens, 69, of Ringgold, Georgia, was allegedly seen by three witnesses and on cellphone video riding his bicycle around posted and signed barricades into a major and hazardous road construction zone on July 12. When construction workers in reflective vests attempted to stop Givens by yelling and signaling, he allegedly rode his bicycle into one of the workers, causing his bicycle to fall over, and then stood up, pepper-sprayed the worker’s face and lunged at him with a stun gun, the release stated.
Givens was later contacted by park rangers, who collected the pepper spray and stun gun. Givens was charged with simple battery and booked into the Catoosa County Jail, according to the release.
— Compiled by Kim Sebring