An elderly man suffered a broken arm in an altercation with panhandlers at a shopping plaza in The Villages.
The man was struck by a metal cane during the attack Friday afternoon by two men who were outside Subway at Spanish Plaines Shopping Center.
The men, later identified as 52-year-old James Temple of Summerfield and 50-year-old Darrin Jermaine Jones of Ocala, were asking people for money, which raised the eyebrows of the elderly man who began recording them with his phone, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. He concluded the two men, who were accompanied by a woman, were “scamming” people and he was advising bystanders, including Publix shoppers, not to give money to the trio.
His actions apparently infuriated Temple and Jones, and he was attacked. Temple was armed with a metal cane and used it to strike the man…