Actor Gary Coleman Sued for $1 Million in Fracas
An MTA bus driver sued former child television star Gary Coleman for $1 million Monday, charging that he attacked her after the two exchanged words when she asked him to redo an autograph he had given her.
Tracy Fields was at the California Uniform Shop in Hawthorne last Thursday when she recognized the 4-foot-8-inch former “Diff’rent Strokes” star, who now works as a security guard and reportedly was in the store to buy a bulletproof vest.
Fields asked for his autograph and got it. But when she asked him to personalize it for her son, he got angry, she alleges in her Los Angeles Superior Court complaint.
She says Coleman knocked her into a gum ball machine and continued to hit her head and breast until he was pulled off by a Los Angeles airport policewoman.
Hawthorne Police Lt. James McInerny said there were several witnesses to the fracas.
Coleman turned himself in Friday at the Hawthorne Police Department after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was then released on his own recognizance.
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