Man arrested after hammer attack in East L.A.
A woman was hospitalized in grave condition early Wednesday reportedly after being struck by a man with a hammer in East Los Angeles.
A man has been arrested in connection with the attack, and detectives were still at the scene Wednesday morning, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The attack was reported at 2:30 a.m. at a home in the 3700 block of Whiteside Street, KABC-TV reported.
The man and woman were involved in an altercation, and the man fought sheriff’s deputies as he was being arrested, KABC reported. A deputy suffered minor injuries.
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At least two other hammer attacks have been reported in the area in recent weeks.
On March 25, a man walked up to an elderly man in the 1400 block of South Bonnie Beach Place in unincorporated Los Angeles and, without warning, struck him with a hammer, the East Los Angeles sheriff’s station said in a statement. After the victim fell to the ground, his attacker kicked him and fled.
Hours later, in the 4400 block of Triggs Street in unincorporated L.A., a woman was standing in front of a residence when the suspect struck her several times in the head with a hammer, leaving her unconscious.
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The suspect in those cases was described as a Latino male with a goatee, between the ages of 40 and 50. Authorities said he was about 6 feet tall, weighed between 200 and 240 pounds and was believed to have fled in a 1990s dark-colored Toyota Tacoma extended cab.
Both of the victims in those attacks were taken to hospitals in serious condition.
It was not immediately clear whether those attacks were related to the incident Wednesday morning.
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