The State - News from July 10, 1989

San Francisco police said they arrested a man suspected of attacking a 16-year-old girl with an ax during the robbery of her mother’s copy store. Alvin Haynes, 32, was was taken into custody after his sister called police and said her brother was ready to turn himself in, police said. Investigators believe Haynes entered the store and asked to use the bathroom, before taking an ax from a toolbox and holding it to the throat of Melody Lacy, 33. The woman’s daughter, Rose, lunged at the man, but he knocked her down and struck her twice with the 4 1/2-inch ax blade. Despite gashes across her cheek and the back of her head, she challenged the robber who fled with an undetermined amount of cash. The girl was treated at a local hospital and released after receiving 200 stitches.