PRINEVILLE, Ore. (AP) - Authorities in Prineville say a jewelry store burglary suspect bit a police officer and attacked him with a hammer.
KTVZ-TV reports (https://bit.ly/1OkbkQG ) that when Sgt. Jimmy O’Daniel responded to a dispatch call of an alarm early on Saturday, he found the store’s front door smashed in and a suspect still inside.
Police say Trevor Hugh Trollope attacked O’Daniel, bit him and struck him in the head with a hammer.
A man who was on a citizen ride-along wrestled the hammer away from the attacker and helped take him into custody.
O’Daniel was taken to a hospital with numerous head and bite wounds. He is in stable condition.
Trollope was taken to jail on charges of attempted murder, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary, resisting arrest, first-degree aggravated theft and first-degree criminal mischief.
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