Actor Gary Coleman strike a walker with his truck later on arguing with him in a local bowling alleyway, police said.
Payson police Lt. Bill Wright said Colt Rushton and Coleman got into an argument in the early morning hours Saturday all over pictures Rushton had taken of Coleman inside the bowling bowling alley. He aforesaid the argumentation continued outside, and that Coleman score Rushton and a auto as he was mount out of a parking space.
Neither man was issued a citation, and Wright said it wasn't clear whether Coleman hit Rushton on purpose. He said neither homo was gift authorities much information.
"We're presently trying to sort through those issues," Wright told the Deseret News of Salt Lake City. "We've been able to constitute there was an parameter between the two, due to pictures Rushton wanted to lead. He took some of Gary Coleman, and (Coleman) wasn't felicitous about it."
Rushton was interpreted to a hospital and treated for minor injuries and released.
Neither Coleman nor Rushton could be reached for commentary Sunday. Neither had a listed telephone set number that could be found.
Wright told The Salt Lake Tribune there are "indications" that alcohol was a factor in the accident. He was unavailable for comment Sunday.
Coleman, world Health Organization starred in the television system sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" from 1978 to 1986 as the character Arnold Jackson, pleaded no contest in California in 1999 to disturbing the peace afterwards he punched an autograph-seeker he claimed insulted him.
Payson is 52 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
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