Anthony Summers is charged with battery and pointing a loaded firearm during an argument

Anthony Summers, 31, surrendered at the Lake County Jail in Crown Point early Wednesday and posted bond the same day, records show.He is charged with battery and pointing a loaded firearm during an argument with a father who confronted Summers' girlfriend, Tangela L. Willis, at the park in Glen Ryan subdivision in March.Willis, 28, was charged with assisting a criminal and carrying a handgun without a permit in the same park incident.
Wyatt Puryear, 37, was shot in the hip during the confrontation, the probable cause affidavit states. Puryear went to the park because his sons said a woman arrived with a handgun after an argument between them and other children, court records state.Gary police have arrested Summers previously.Eight years ago, officers found him with a loaded gun while responding to reports of a man pointing a weapon at a woman. The victim, Willis, told police Summers battered her and threatened to kill her, police reports state.Summers was also arrested when he was 18 years old after he allegedly threatened to shoot a security guard at Martin Luther King Academy. Records do not state whether police recovered a gun when he was apprehended.

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