An Oak Harbor man is facing a felony charge for allegedly hitting another man with a bat and breaking his arm in the Safeway parking lot Nov. 28, according to court documents.

Prosecutors charged 43-year-old Charles Bruce Daugherty in Island County Superior Court Dec. 3 with second-degree assault with a deadly weapon.

Daugherty’s bail was set at $10,000 at a Nov. 28 hearing.

Brian Jackson, the 27-year-old alleged victim, reported that he was standing outside the Radio Shack when Daugherty confronted him.

Jackson said Daugherty pulled a metal baseball bat from a backpack and swung it at his upper torso and head. Jackson said he put his arm up in defense and the bat struck his arm, according to a report by Officer William Wilke.

Jackson was transported to the hospital for treatment.

The officer located Daugherty later that night. He was walking with a backpack that had a bat sticking out of it.

Daugherty told the officer that Jackson pulled a knife on him and he defended himself with the baseball bat, the report states.

Wilke noted in his report that Jackson had stabbed Daugherty in the chest during a fight earlier this year. Jackson was arrested, but the case was later dismissed because investigators were unable to prove the stabbing was not in self defense, the report states.

Wilke wrote that he was unable to find a knife at the scene and a witness did not report seeing a knife.

Jackson denied have a knife. He said the police had confiscated his two knives and a machete when he was recently arrested for assaulting a woman, the report states.

Jackson suffered a broken arm that required surgery to fix, according to the police report.