WEST PARIS – A son has been charged with hitting his 68-year-old mother over the head with a hammer during an early-morning fight.
Stephen Geyer, 39, and his mother, Dora Hoyt, began arguing over Geyer’s 6-year-old child around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at Hoyt’s house on Route 26, or Bethel Road, State Police Trooper James Nolan said.
It started as a verbal argument but escalated until they were shoving each other, Nolan said. At some point, Geyer apparently reached for a nearby hammer and allegedly hit Hoyt on top of her head with it, Nolan added.
Hoyt was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway to be treated for a large laceration on her scalp. She also had multiple bruises. She was treated and released, Nolan said.
After the fight, Geyer took off in his vehicle, but police caught up with him in Bethel and charged him with elevated aggravated assault, a class A felony.
Nolan said he has sent the hammer to a lab to be tested for fingerprints and DNA.
Geyer’s bail has been set at $50,000 cash or $100,000 in property, a jail official said.
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