Area Digest: Driver cited for striking protester at shooting club

Reading Eagle

Originally Published: 9/7/2011

A Lower Alsace Township man was cited by state police after he struck a protester with his minivan at the entrance to a shooting club in Perry Township, troopers said Monday.

Fredrick K. Campbell, 58, of the 500 block of North 25th Street was issued a citation for driving at an unsafe speed Saturday after he struck protester Steve O. Hindi, 57, Elburn, Ill., near the entrance of the Wing Pointe Gun Club on Route 662, police said.

Troopers said Campbell was making a right turn into the gun club shortly before 4 p.m. when he struck Hindi with the right front passenger side of his minivan. Campbell then continued into the gun club, troopers said.

Hindi suffered an unspecified injury, police said. It was not clear if he sought medical treatment.

It was the latest in a series of incidents involving protesters outside Wing Pointe.

Hindi, who identifies himself as a former hunter, is the founder and president of a group called SHARK, which stands for Showing Animals Respect and Kindness. He founded the group in 1995, according to its website.

Campbell could not be reached for comment.