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Police Search For Couple Wanted In Fight Over Parking Spot

LAFAYETTE, Colo. (CBS4)- Police in Lafayette want to find the couple involved in a fight that started over a handicap parking space.

Carol and Robert Hat were at the Kaiser Permanente to get Carol's cast removed. Robert has a broken vertebrae and traumatic brain injury. They were waiting for a handicap parking space when things got out of control.

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Kaiser Permanente in Lafayette (credit: CBS)

"I don't understand. It was a parking spot," said Carol.

"It's a parking spot," said Robert.

"I saw a lady who was getting ready to leave so I'm sitting in that driveway with my turn signal on," said Carol.

Robert got a wheelchair while Carol waited for a handicap spot to open up.

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Robert Hat demonstrates how the suspect punched him (credit: CBS)

"And while I'm sitting there this little grey car with a male driver and a female passenger, they come around me on the driver's side, between the sidewalk and the driver's side of my vehicle, the young lady flips me off and pulls into another spot that's vacating," said Carol. "They exit their car, pointing and laughing at me. I rolled down my window and basically said, 'Hey... I'm sitting here waiting for this spot.'"

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Police search for two suspects wanted in a parking spot assault (credit: Lafayette Police)

Robert came back to the car where profanities were exchanged and then it got violent.

"He drew back and threw a punch at me and hit me here, basically in the collar, in the cheek, and it didn't really hurt but if he would have hit me hard... I would be paralyzed," said Robert.

After all that, the couple pulled out of the parking spot as Carol and Robert called 911.

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CBS4's Shaun Boyd interviews Carol and Robert Hat (credit: CBS)

"It was a parking spot, he could have paralyzed my husband over a parking spot," said Carol.

Police tried to stop a grey Hyundai but it sped away. The couple was captured on surveillance video and police have released the pictures.

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A man wanted in a parking lot assault (credit: Lafayette Police)

The couple faces felony charges of eluding police and assaulting an at-risk person. Anyone with information about the couple in the surveillance video is asked to call Lafayette Police (303) 665-5571.

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