BEDFORD – On Tuesday, November 7th at 1:46 p.m. Bedford Police officers responded to a report of a fight involving a firearm at the T-Moblie store in the 3000 block of John Williams Boulevard.
The caller, 26-year-old Nathan Kuster, of Bedford, reported he had “pistol whipped” another man and that man had left the scene in a Jeep Renegade. Kuster told police he would be waiting for them in the Dollar Tree parking lot and had put his gun inside his Ford Ranger.
When police arrived they spoke to Kuster who reported when he walked past the T-Mobile store the other man involved said something to him and then lifted his shirt to brandish a handgun.
Kuster told police when he saw the brandished gun he pulled out his handgun and began to hit the other man who brandished the gun and made the remark possibly two times. Police found Kuster’s black Glock 22 .40-caliber unloaded handgun in the front seat of his vehicle.
A witness and employee at the T-Mobile store reported the male who was attacked came into the store to bring a woman flowers and food. The woman who received the flowers is Kuster’s ex-girlfriend. The employee said the woman who received the flowers exited the store with the male and went to the male’s vehicle. That is when Kuster walked by and yelled at the couple. Kuster then walked over to them, pointed a gun at the woman’s face, and then started beating the man. The woman ran back into the store.
Police had the woman contact the attacked boyfriend to request him to return to the store. Which he did.
The injured man told police he was at his vehicle when Kuster began yelling at him and his girlfriend. Kuster then walked up to the couple and shoved the man in the chest up against his car. He then brandished his handgun and pointed it in the male’s face saying he was going to shoot him. The male pushed Kuster back and that is when Kuster “cracked me in the side of the head with the pistol”. The male said Kuster hit him once with the handgun and then multiple times with his fist.
The injured man suffered a small bump on the side of his head and a red scratch on the side of his neck.
The woman who called the police caught the attack on her cell phone.
Kuster was detained on charges of battery with a deadly weapon, pointing a firearm, and intimidation with a deadly weapon.
