On January 1, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office began highlighting one fugitive each day in an effort to get the public to help catch them. The first lucky fugitive to be featured is 42-year-old Robert David Pearsall III.
According to the the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, on September 8, 2018 “Pearsall was camping in the area of Bear Siding Camp Site near the Verde River when he approached the victim who was sitting down. Unprovoked, Pearsall struck the male victim about the face and head several times with a hardened piece of wood until the victim went to the ground unresponsive and bleeding from the head and face. Pearsall fled the scene.”
Pearsall’s victim suffered a concussion, a traumatic laceration, partial loss of his right ear and multiple bruises and abrasions