Stafford County, Va. –– A woman was treated at a local hospital after she was attacked inside her Stafford County home, authorities said.
Stafford sheriff’s deputies were called to a home on Muscleman Road just before 3 p.m. Tuesday, off U.S. 17 in the southern portion of the county, after a woman said she was attacked by a man who was standing in her living room.
The woman was in her attic when she heard what sounded like “cats playing and knocking things over” in her living room, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The woman went to investigate and saw a tall, skinny man in a gray hooded sweatshirt, holding her laptop computer under his left arm and her TV in her hands, said Kennedy.
The woman screamed and turned to run, but the man then hit her in the head, rendering the woman unconscious for a brief time.
The woman came to and saw nothing had been taken from her home and then called the sheriff’s department, said Kennedy.
The victim was shaken and distraught, and was treated for her wounds at a local hospital. While there, she told investigators that she did not know her attacker.
Sheriff’s deputies used search dogs, bike patrols and set up a perimeter in an effort to locate the attacker, but found no one.
Anyone with information on this case is encouraged to call Stafford County Crime Solvers at 540-659-2020.
