OLATHE, Kan. — A 50-year-old man is charged in a hammer attack that seriously injured an 85-year-old woman.
Johnson County prosecutors charged Christopher A. Brewer with aggravated battery, knowingly causing great bodily harm or disfigurement.
Olathe police were sent around 12:30 p.m. Sunday to the Olathe Pointe shopping center near West 119th Street and Blackbob Road on a disturbance that involved a blunt object.
The injured woman was taken to a hospital, and Olathe police arrested Brewer at the scene.
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