DeBary, FL – A DeBary man is locked up for allegedly attacking a bar DJ after he sang karaoke and thought the DJ didn’t turn his mic up loud enough.
26-year-old Joshua R. Fort turned himself in at Volusia County Jail over an hour after the attack took place at Blackie’s Bar on Enterprise Road, according to a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office report.
A deputy was called out to Blackie’s around 1am Thursday and found the 42-year-old DJ with several cuts to the left side of his head, including behind his ear, on his neck and under his chin.
According to the arrest report, the DJ claims Fort came up to him, asked for a song to sing and then started complaining afterward that the DJ had his mic set too low.
Deputies think Fort got upset over what he thought was the DJ ignoring his complaints and that’s when Fort grabbed the DJ’s laptop computer and shut it.
It was at that point, per the report, that Fort swung a glass tumbler cup at the DJ, hitting him on the left side of his head. Fort also allegedly grabbed the DJ, pulled him onto the dance floor and threw him on the ground.
VCSO says Fort fled the bar on foot after a bar patron and the bartender broke up the fight, but Fort agreed to turn himself in after the deputy managed to contact him with a phone call.
When questioned, Fort claimed the DJ was “having an affair” with someone he knew and that he hit the DJ with the tumbler in self-defense after the DJ “jumped” on him, per the report.
When asked why he ran off, Fort said he “knew he was going to be in trouble” and that “everyone would point fingers at him”, according to the report.
A witness told VCSO that Fort was “extremely agitated” and “intoxicated” when he started yelling at the DJ.
Fort left VCJ after posting $5,000 bond on an aggravated battery charge. He was also taken to Halifax Health Medical Center for treatment of a cut on his left hand before he was booked at VCJ.
The DJ went to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City for treatment, according to the report.
Joshua R. Fort (mugshot courtesy VCJ)
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