Pitstick pleaded guilty to a charge of felonious assault, but had previously faced charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and vehicular assault, which were dropped.
Pitstick was also ordered to pay $3,100 in restitution and will have his license suspended for 15-years.
INITIAL REPORT (Oct. 12):
A man whose legs were run over in a road rage incident this summer wants the man accused sent to prison.
“If you’re going to do something that drastic, you need to pay the price for it,” Marcellus Haynes told News Center 7’s Gabrielle Enright on Monday.
Christopher Pitstick is expected in court this week on felony charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and vehicular assault in the July 26 incident.
Pitstick, 28 and of Enon, remains in the Greene County Jail on $200,000 bail.
He’s accused of running over Haynes’s legs during an argument in the area of 6200 Wilmington Pike. According to police, Pitstick was following an SUV that slowed.
Pitstick rear-ended the SUV. That led to an argument between himself and the other driver, identified as Haynes.
Police said Pitstick revved his engine and hit Haynes, knocking him to the ground, running over his legs and leaving the scene. A witness gave police the license tag number of Pitstick’s vehicle.
Pitstick was arrested Oct. 7 by Sugarcreek Twp. police.
“I’m listening to my wife screaming,” Haynes, 48, told Enright, recalling the incident he said left him sandwiched between his driver’s door and Pitstick’s passenger door. He suffered no broken bones.
“The only thing going through my mind is we just got married a few weeks ago and we have a child on the way,” he said. “I kept thinking, I might not be here for this.”
Haynes said he wants Pitstick punished, but says that will be up to a judge.
“I do want him to serve some time,” Haynes said. “Do I want him in there 10 years? Maybe yes. Because my child could have grown up without a father.”