Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – James Henry Vhay III, 46, was arrested yesterday and charged with aggravated battery after allegedly hitting another man in the head with a pipe-like object at a homeless camp.
The responding Gainesville Police Department officer reported that at about 10:15 p.m. on May 5, Vhay and the victim started arguing at a homeless camp just west of Alachua County Fire Rescue Station #30 (930 SE 5th Street); the argument turned physical, and Vhay allegedly hit the victim in the back of the head with a blunt cylindrical object, causing a deep laceration…