Lang
8/14/21
A Sutliff resident faces charges that he seriously injured another man by hitting him in the head with a hammer.
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office says the alleged victim and his girlfriend pulled up to a residence on the Cedar River two houses down from the Sutliff Bridge on White Oak Avenue around 1:30 Friday afternoon. The girlfriend went into the house to retrieve medication while the boyfriend stayed in the car. The man who lives at the residence, 62-year-old Richard Foster, allegedly told the woman he was going to smash her boyfriend’s skull in with a hammer. Foster then allegedly retrieved a ballpeen hammer, walked directly up to the boyfriend and used it to strike him in the head while he was waiting in the car. The man suffered serious injuries requiring immediate transportation to the hospital.
Foster was booked into the Johnson County Jail just before 3pm Friday and charged with Willful Injury Causing Bodily Injury. If convicted, he faces a maximum of ten years in prison.