Employee hit in head in hammer attack at Ohio dollar store

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) – One of two people currently in police custody allegedly attacked a dollar store clerk in Ohio with a hammer, hitting her multiple times, including in the head, according to a police report.

According to the report, police responded to a Dollar General store in Canton, Ohio, on May 8 for a report of a woman wielding a hammer and a man attacking people in the store.

When police arrived, the suspects had already fled in a hatchback.

The employee told police that the suspect hit her several times on the body and head with the hammer. The woman, who police said had cuts and a bump on her head, was taken to a nearby hospital. According to the report, she should undergo tests.

Another victim told police the man hit her in the back of the head several times. She also showed police her cell phone video of the alleged hammer attack.

A third victim said she tried to intervene and calm the male suspect, but the man poured beer over her head and punched her in the face, knocking off her glasses, the report said.

The fourth victim recorded the suspects fleeing the store and then went outside to take her car’s license plate. The male suspect then tried to hit the man with his car, the report states.

Other police officers later spotted the vehicle in another part of the city and arrested both suspects. According to the report, the hammer suspected to be a weapon was also found in the car.

Payton Valentine, 21, and Mannon Valentine, 20, both of Canton, are now each charged with one count of aggravated assault and are being held on $75,000 bond.