FARMINGTON — Police say a Temple man attacked an acquaintance with a wooden stake on High Street on Thursday morning.
Travis Gordon, 19, was charged with aggravated assault and domestic assault following the attack in front of 229 High St., police said.
Gordon assaulted a young man who is dating his ex-girlfriend, Farmington Police officer Daryn Gilbert said.
He said Gordon went to the High Street apartment building at about 11 a.m. carrying a construction-grade stake.
The victim came out of the apartment and Gordon hit him with the stake three or four times, at least once in the head and once in the side, Gilbert said.
The young man was taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital by NorthStar ambulance and was treated for a head injury.
The girlfriend tried to stop Gordon and was hit in the face during the incident, resulting in the domestic assault charge, Gilbert said.
Gordon then walked up High Street toward town. Deputy Chief Shane Cote of the Farmington Police Department and Franklin County Deputy Matt Brann found him a few minutes later near the student center parking lot at the University of Maine at Farmington.
He told police where he threw the stick but they were unable to find it.
Gordon was taken to Franklin County Detention Center where he remained Thursday night on $1,500 cash bail, Gilbert said. Gordon was not injured in the incident.
Kristi Luce, who lives in an apartment building across the street, said she looked out her window and saw a man striking another young man in the head with a stick or something. She couldn’t tell what it was.
Two women tried to intervene, according to witnesses.
“It’s all rather disturbing,” Luce said of the attack that comes only days after two other people were arrested for assaults with an ax and a meat cleaver at a home on Poverty Lane, off High Street.
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- Police talk with witnesses of an assault that occurred on High Street in Farmington on Thursday morning. A young man was taken to the hospital after being hit with a wooden stake.
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