Police charge 28-year-old man after an unprovoked assault at Preston bus stop
A person has been charged for allegedly hitting an elderly man with a hammer outside a northern suburb shopping centre.
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A man has been charged for allegedly hitting an elderly man with a hammer in an unprovoked attack outside a northern suburb shopping centre.
A 69-year-old Watsonia man was at a bus stop outside a shopping centre in Preston last month when an unknown man approached him about 1pm.
The police allege the man was punched several times and also hit with a hammer and was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police have charged a 28-year-old man, of no fixed address, with reckless conduct, endangering serious injury, intentionally causing injury and assault with a weapon.
The 28-year-old man was remanded and will appear at Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court later today.
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