Woman accused of chucking Skee-ball at back of little kid’s head at NJ arcade
New Jersey police are looking for a woman who allegedly threw a Skee-ball that struck a child in the head at an arcade following a disagreement with another person.
The Cape May Police Department released a video and a statement to Facebook asking for the public’s help in identifying the woman seen chucking the wooden, baseball-size ball at the child after getting into an argument with a man.
“She was involved in a disagreement with another patron of the arcade. As a result, she throws a Skeeball at the other party that ends up striking a child in the back of the head,” cops said.
The woman is talking with a child of her own near the unidentified arcade’s Skee-ball alleys when she looks up as a child and a man walk past her, according to the video.
The woman eventually makes her way to the Lane Master game, a Skee-ball/bowling game where the objective is to knock down digital bowling pins instead of getting the ball into point holes, when she rips the arcade card out of the child’s hands and swipes into the machine multiple times.
Once the ball becomes available to play, the woman picks it up and appears to rip the ball underhand at the defenseless child and man who appear slightly out of the camera’s frame, the clip shows.
The woman stands hunched over and grabs another ball to play the game amid the ordeal.
When the man wearing a striped blue and white shirt confronts the woman, it appears she says the ball slipped from her hand.
A female bystander jumps into the conversation as the first woman shrugs her shoulders and gestures as if to say she has no idea what happened.
As the woman walks away with two children, the man cups his hands around his mouth, yelling something at her.
Cape May police shared a photo alongside the video posted to social media, showing the woman in a white dress and dark, shoulder-length hair, standing around with a group of six others outside.
It is unknown what the original disagreement was about or if the child who was hit suffered any injuries.
