Man pistol-whipped during fight over parking spot speaks out: ‘I got 6 stitches’

A man who was pistol-whipped during an argument over a parking spot in Philadelphia told NBC10 that the incident was a misunderstanding.

Ale Torres, who has been charged for his role in the incident that was caught on camera in Kensington after last week’s storm, said it is “stupid” to fight over a parking spot and that he was not trying to take the spot the other people involved sought to defend.

“It’s stupid fighting over parking,” Torres said. “I got six stitches.”

Torres said he was simply asking Anna Rodriguez DeJesus to move her car so he could get his car out to go to work.

“I guess she had problems at home, and she had an attitude,” Torres said. “As soon as I told her to move, she thought I was fighting for her parking, and I wasn’t. I just wanted to get my car out.”

“She threatened me that her son was in the car and he had a license to carry a gun,” Torres added.

According to police, Torres had a knife and DeJesus’ son had a gun, which he was legally allowed to carry.

However, the two men agreed not to use their weapons and began punching and wrestling, police said.

During the fight, DeJesus went and got her son’s gun and pistol-whipped Torres as he fought her son.

“if somebody spent three hours of their time cleaning a parking space, why someone that didn’t do nothing just come and take it? Now that person is the one looking for a problem,” Torres said.

NBC10 reached out to the woman charged in this case to get her side of the story, and we will let you know if we are able to make contact with her.

An investigation is underway after two men got into a fight over a parking spot in Kensington on Thursday which led to one of them being pistol-whipped. NBC10’s Shaira Arias reports.