Witness accounts and an accident report from the Florida Highway Patrol are shedding light on the arrest of a Villager who allegedly punched the driver of a golf cart which struck his wife on Morse Boulevard.
Thomas Kent Brammer, 70, who lives in Villa de Laguna in the Village of Rio Grande, was arrested Tuesday morning after his wife, 71-year-old Deborah Kemper, was struck by a 2011 Yamaha golf cart on Morse Boulevard at San Juan Drive near the entrance to the Village of Hacienda. Kemper suffered incapacitating injuries and was transported by ambulance to Ocala Regional Medical Center. An accident report indicated that Kemper was walking and “traveled into the direct path” of the golf cart, driven by a 73-year-old Village of Hacienda woman. She had been making a left turn from San Juan Drive onto Morse Boulevard when she struck Kemper, who was crossing Morse Boulevard from the median in a southerly direction.
Thomas Brammer posted this photo of he and wife, Deborah Kemper, on social media.
When Sumter County sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene, Brammer was found near his unconscious wife, who was being treated by personnel from The Villages Public Safety Department.
The woman who had been driving the golf cart told deputies that Brammer, who stands 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, walked up to her golf cart, raised his two fists and pushed through the golf cart curtain. He struck her “in the left side of her face twice,” the report said.
The golf cart driver was not ticketed and did not appear to be at fault, according to the accident report.
Brammer, who purchased his home in The Villages with his wife in 2017, was taken into custody and booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. The New Jersey native was released after posting $7,000 bond.
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