By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – An off-duty police officer and another passerby intervened when a state trooper and a pedestrian scuffled on the side of Interstate 5 at Chehalis this evening.
Aid, and perhaps as many as a half dozen police officers, responded about 6:25 p.m. to the southbound off ramp at Main Street.
Neither were seriously injured, according to responders.
Washington State Patrol spokesperson Trooper Ryan Tanner said he didn’t yet know many details.
“Don’t know why the contact, or why the scuffle,” Tanner said.
The trooper’s glasses were broken when he was hit just below his eye with some kind of metallic object, like a lug nut, Tanner said.
The trooper, whose identity was not released, declined to go to the hospital, according to the Chehalis Fire Department. It wasn’t the kind of injury that required stitches, Fire Capt. Rob Gebhart said.
The other individual had only scrapes, he said.
The passersby took the individual into custody, Tanner said.