Police: hammer threat sends Atchison man to jail
10/27/2021

Jeffery Walker/Credit: Atchison Co Sheriff's Office

(KAIR)--An Atchison man is facing charges in connection with the allegation that he threatened another man with a hammer.

According to a release from Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, 33-year-old Jeffery Walker was taken into custody Tuesday evening for aggravated assault.

Wilson says the arrest of Walker was made after Police Officers, Tuesday evening around 6:20, “responded to a disturbance at an apartment complex in the 900 block of South 4th Street.”

It’s alleged that during the disturbance, Walker threatened a 51-year-old man, who lives there, with a hammer.

Walker was taken into custody at the apartment complex.

Wilson, in the release, said no one was injured during the disturbance.

Walker was booked into the Atchison County Jail. 


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