FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Doctors aren’t sure whether an 80-year-old woman will recover her sight following an attack in her Fort Wayne home by a man she told police was her neighbors’ nephew.
The woman lost one eye and sustained a detached retina in the other after she was repeatedly punched after sitting down to watch television about 9 p.m. March 10, The Journal Gazette and WANE-TV reported.
Zachery Doan, 19, of Fort Wayne has been charged with robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, burglary resulting in bodily injury and aggravated battery, all felonies. He was being held Monday in the Allen County Jail on $75,000 bond.
Court records don’t indicate whether Doan has an attorney.
The woman, whose name wasn’t included in a probable cause affidavit, told police that a man she recognized knocked on her door about 6:30 p.m. and asked to use her bathroom. She said she reluctantly let him in the house once, but he tried to get back inside again.
She said he got angry when she told him to go to the house of his aunt and uncle, saying he pounded on the door and demanded she take him somewhere. She said when she refused, he stared at her for several minutes before leaving.
She said she later heard a loud noise from her kitchen and saw him running toward her.
She told police she blacked out during the attack. When she regained consciousness, she ran to her front porch and began calling for help.
Police said the victim’s purse, which had her cellphone and credit cards in it, along with $100 in cash, was missing. Her purse was later found by a passer-by.
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