Findlay Police Investigating Hammer Attack

8/21/17 – 11:39 A.M.
Update – 8/22/17 – 5:24 A.M.

Findlay police have found the man they wanted to talk to in regard to a hammer attack on Bernard Avenue late Sunday night. Investigators were looking for 38-year-old Robert Brown Sr. Police Lt. Robert Ring says Brown may have knowledge about the incident. He formerly lived on Bernard Avenue. Police have not charged him with anything at this time.

A police report says officers responded to a call from Blanchard Valley Health System around 10:30 p.m. after a man with a head injury showed up at the hospital. An acquittance of 51-year-old Robert Durain hit Durain in the head with a hammer following an argument outside a home at 1241 Bernard Avenue. Durain had surgery and is still receiving treatment at the hospital.