NEW YORK (AP) - A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for using a hammer to attack a New York City police officer and three other victims in 2015.
Prosecutors say David Baril was sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to attempted aggravated assault upon a police officer and assault. Information on his lawyer was not immediately available.
The hammer-wielding Baril is accused of randomly striking three strangers in the head at three separate locations in Manhattan over a span of several hours on a single day in May.
Two day later, two police officers confronted Baril, who attacked one of the officers before the other drew his gun and fired several shots. Baril was struck and wounded. The hammer was recovered.
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