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August 18th, 2009, 11:11 AM
An attack with a machete cost one woman her right index finger and put her accused assailant in jail on an attempted murder charge, according to Bunnell police.
"This was an altercation where one girl went to another girl's house with a machete and chopped her index finger off," police Chief Arthur Jones said Monday.
The assault began about 11:30 p.m. Sunday when Sonia Denise Harvey, 40, Daytona Beach, drove to a house at 300 S. Anderson St., pulled a machete from her car's trunk and swung it at the victim, identified as Dian Patterson, according to witnesses' accounts in the arrest report.
Patterson was attempting to protect her daughter, Jammell Patterson, who police believe had been in an earlier fight with Harvey's niece. The machete struck Patterson's right index finger as she held up her hand to fend off the attack, the report stated. The finger was later amputated at Florida Hospital Flagler.
Even though the injury was not life-threatening, Jones said attempted murder was charged because of the nature of the attack.
Harvey told investigators Patterson hit her with a baseball bat, according to the report.
Harvey was taken to the Flagler County Inmate Facility after being treated and released from the hospital.http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Flagler/flaFLAG03081809.htm
"This was an altercation where one girl went to another girl's house with a machete and chopped her index finger off," police Chief Arthur Jones said Monday.
The assault began about 11:30 p.m. Sunday when Sonia Denise Harvey, 40, Daytona Beach, drove to a house at 300 S. Anderson St., pulled a machete from her car's trunk and swung it at the victim, identified as Dian Patterson, according to witnesses' accounts in the arrest report.
Patterson was attempting to protect her daughter, Jammell Patterson, who police believe had been in an earlier fight with Harvey's niece. The machete struck Patterson's right index finger as she held up her hand to fend off the attack, the report stated. The finger was later amputated at Florida Hospital Flagler.
Even though the injury was not life-threatening, Jones said attempted murder was charged because of the nature of the attack.
Harvey told investigators Patterson hit her with a baseball bat, according to the report.
Harvey was taken to the Flagler County Inmate Facility after being treated and released from the hospital.http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Flagler/flaFLAG03081809.htm