A Villager known for her charitable work has been ordered into anger management after trying to run down a mother and child in a parking dispute at Walmart.
Barbara McManus, 75, of the Village of St. Charles, has been ordered to complete eight hours of in-person anger management and will be on probation for 60 days, according to a document filed this past month in Sumter County Court. She entered a plea of no contest to two counts of assault.
McManus, who has been lauded for her work on behalf of the Wildwood Soup Kitchen, was driving a Nissan Rogue on Sept. 16 when a woman driving a black Jeep Patriot pulled into a spot which had just been vacated at Walmart at Buffalo Ridge Plaza in The Villages, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. McManus also wanted the spot, but was blocked by a vehicle pulling out of a handicapped spot.
McManus “became verbally aggressive, using foul language,” the report said. The other woman admitted she had “reciprocated.”…