BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston police are turning to the public for help locating a man they say hit an elderly man with a hammer in Dorchester on Sunday.
Officers responding to a report of an injured person in the area of Columbia Road and Washington Street around 2 p.m. found the elderly male victim suffering from an apparent leg injury, according to Boston police. The man told officers he was approached by an unidentified man who got out of a stopped motor vehicle and hit him in the shin with a hammer before fleeing the area.
7NEWS spoke with the victim off camera Friday and while he did not want to comment on the attack, he said he is doing ok.
Police on Friday released surveillance images of the suspect, who is described as a black non-Hispanic male between 40 and 50 years old who was about 6 feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call Boston Police District B-2 Detectives at 617-343-4275.
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