STALLINGS, N.C. — A Stallings man was savagely beaten during a carjacking at a local car wash, according to police.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers arrested Cesar Walker Jr. this weekend after the incident at Wash One on Old Monroe Road in Stallings on Sept. 14.
The victim, Robert Spencer, told Channel 9 he was at the car wash to clean out his wife's car as a favor when Walker approached him and asked to use Spencer's phone, claiming his car had broken down.
"As soon as [Walker] got through with the phone, he started assaulting the victim," said Lt. J.T. Flynn of the Stallings Police Department.
Spencer said Walker grabbed a tire iron and used a pair of steel scissors as impromptu brass knuckles and began raining down blows on his head, face and chest.
Spencer told Eyewitness News Walker tried to force him to the car, claiming he had a gun, but Spencer said he fought back elbowing Walker in the mid-section. Walker eventually jumped into Spencer's car and sped off.
Police said Spencer managed to crawl to a nearby gas station where he collapsed inside.
In the 911 call, a store clerk told dispatchers, "There's a man that just came stumbling in and he has been beaten in the head and now he is laying on the floor."
Spencer said he received more than 30 stitches for his head injuries at Novant Medical Center in Matthews.
Police said over the next several days they tracked the phone number Walker had called from Spencer's cellphone and learned it led to Walker's mother who lives in Charlotte.
Investigators said after multiple interviews, they arrested Walker on felony assault and robbery charges.
He is in the Union County jail on a $50,000 bond.
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