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Man busts out windows of fitness club
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A Social Circle man was behind bars after reportedly taking a baseball bat to the front windows of Force Fitness and a vehicle belonging to an employee who works there Thursday afternoon.

According to reports from the Social Circle Police Department, motorists passing by the gym on North Cherokee Road called 911 to report that a man, later identified as 29-year-old Jeremy Lee Shearer, was breaking windows out of the business and the car of an employee, with a metal baseball bat.

Officers also were told that Shearer threatened to harm the employee.

Shearer was arrested at the scene without incident and charged with terroristic threats, aggravated assault, and two counts of criminal damage to property.