Prominent Jacksonville banker's son charged with assaulting him

The son of a prominent Jacksonville banking executive has been charged with assaulting his father.

Gilbert Pomar, 26, is charged with domestic aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm.

His father is CenterState Bank of Florida Regional President Gilbert Pomar III.

The younger Pomar’s arrest report said he can be seen on video repeatedly punching and kicking his father in the head while he is on the ground.

A witness told the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office she heard him say, “I hate you, just die.”

JSO described the attack as “extremely violent.”

Police said the 26-year-old then came to the intersection of Roosevelt Boulevard and St. Johns Avenue in Fairfax and started kicking and punching strangers’ cars that were stopped at a red light.

Then witnesses told police he went to a gas station on the corner and bashed another car with a trash can.

Twenty-six-year-old Pomar’s Instagram page says, “I’m in jail for almost killing my dad.”

He posted a photo of his father lying in a pool of blood.

Pomar’s former roommate, Gary Davis, was the one who told police about what happened.

“He said, ‘I started to kill him, but the only reason I didn’t kill him, is because I can use him for money. That’s all he good for,’” said Davis.

A neighbor, who did not want to be identified out of fear of retaliation, describes seeing police swarm the younger Pomar’s home on Wednesday.

“They got the owner out and then this other tenant, and then they went back in there with guns out, with the dogs, and they went and got this other young guy out,” the neighbor said.

In 2014, the younger Pomar was found guilty of beating an officer and his friend outside the Ortega Yacht Club.

In 2015, he was found guilty of threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and her family.

At that time, court documents show his parents told police their son “was experiencing some emotional difficulties and they were trying to get him some help.”

In 2012, Pomar was charged with breaking his brother’s nose, but that charge was later dropped.

“I knew the boy was crazy,” Davis said. “Because you don’t jump on somebody that’s paying your rent, paying your insurance.”

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