MAN GOES ON ATTACK WITH AN AX

Elyria – A dispute over a girl ended with a hatchet wielding man going on the attack in an apartment complex parking lot.

Police received a call Monday afternoon of a man who had been attacked by man with an ax.

Police responded and found St. John Harris in the parking lot of a church at the corner of College Park and N. Abbe Road – bleeding from the head and hands. Multiple cuts were found on Harris as LifeCare Paramedics treated him.

Police learned that Harris and his wife had gone to the College Park Apartments at the request of his nephew, Terrill Bates. Bates had been involved in an argument over a girl with Demann Wilson earlier in the day, but that argument had ended by the time Bates had called for his Uncle to come to the complex.

Harris told Police that while he and his wife were waiting in the parking lot near the R building, Wilson came out of an apartment waiving an ax and yelling at his nephew. Harris then grabbed a piece of wood fencing and attempted to keep Wilson and the ax away from his nephew. Wilson began swinging the ax and struck Harris on the head, hand and finger.

Harris was able to get the ax away from Wilson as he swung him into a parked car – causing damage to the vehicle. After getting the ax away from Wilson, Harris said he threw it up on top of a nearby apartment building and then continued fighting with Wilson. Wilson’s brother came out of his apartment to try to get into the fight himself, but then both Wilson brothers returned to the apartment.

Witnesses later told Police that Wilson left the complex with an unknown female in an unknown vehicle.

Police made contact with maintenance personnel who assisted in getting an Officer to the roof of the apartment building that was supposed to have the ax. A thorough search of the rooftop, balconies and grounds turned up no ax.

Wilson turned himself into Police at the Station 10 hours later and was charged with Felonious Assault. Wilson refused to comment on the incident with Police.

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