By Matt Wiley
A party turned violent after a Wesley Chapel man drove his car through a group of people outside of a home, hitting his girlfriend.
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) reports that just after 12 a.m. on October 27, Clayton Wayne Cody Powell, 20, of the Angus Valley area of Wesley Chapel, drove a 1998 Ford Crown Victoria through the yard of a residence on Drexel Rd. in Land O’Lakes.
Witnesses told deputies that he swerved back and forth through the yard, striking a Ford pickup truck, and then backed up and drove straight into his girlfriend, Brandy Butler, with the front of his vehicle. Butler was propelled backward several feet and struck her head on the pavement.
While she lay on the shoulder of the road, witnesses told deputies that Powell drove toward her several times. Butler told deputies that she thought he was trying to kill her, the PCSO report states.
PCSO reports that the incident stemmed from an earlier argument between Powell and Butler, who told him that she did not want to leave the party with him.
Butler was transported to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson and diagnosed with a concussion.
Powell was arrested on charges of attempted murder and still is in custody at the Land O’Lakes Detention Center in lieu of a $150,000 bond.
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