Bowling Green Police were called to a residence in the 800 block of Pearl Street on Saturday (July 26) around 9:18 p.m., for a fight in progress. The caller said it appeared two men were fighting, one with a roof shovel, the other with a baseball bat.
When police first arrived at the house on Pearl Street, they found a man with blood on his arm, who said Matthew Purdy, 34, of Bowling Green, had struck him with the shovel. The man said when Purdy arrived at the house, he had exited his black Chevy truck, holding the shovel, and hit another vehicle at the home.
The man told police he went to his own vehicle to get a baseball bat to defend his family.
Ring camera video recording the fight between the two men.
Previous camera video from the day reportedly showed Purdy walking around his ex-girlfriend’s house with the shovel, and doing a burnout in his truck in the driveway.
When located later in the evening at his home in the 500 block of Ordway Avenue, Purdy was arrested for assault, menacing, criminal trespassing and criminal damage. His bond was posted at the police station.
Police were called back to the Pearl Street residence on Sunday (July 27) after Purdy reportedly showed up three times at his ex-girlfriend’s home. Purdy allegedly threatened to break out windows in the home, and told the woman that she and her children weren’t safe. When police were called shortly after 6 p.m., they arrested Purdy for menacing by stalking and criminal trespassing. He was taken to Wood County Jail.
