Lang
6/3/23
A second reported assault in three days at Iowa City’s Shelter House has led to a local transient being booked into the Johnson County Jail one day after his release from the first incident.
Arrest records indicate 27-year-old Chavon Banks followed another subject as the man was trying to smoke a cigarette outside the Southgate Avenue facility around 8:30 Friday morning. Banks then reportedly tried to touch the man’s face. The man told Banks not to touch him, and Banks allegedly responded by punching the man in the face multiple times.
Banks told police he thought the man was following him, so he “beat him up”.
Banks is charged with Assault Causing Bodily Injury, a Serious Misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of one year in jail.
Banks was also arrested for Assault Causing Bodily Injury at Shelter House Wednesday morning after he allegedly shoved a subject who uses a walker to the ground and punched him repeatedly. He was released from jail for that incident Thursday morning…just over 24 hours before his arrest for Friday’s incident.