Two officers injured while attempting to arrest Faith McCarthy, who is accused of assaulting her grandmother.
Syracuse, NY -- Roselyn Hector hadn't seen Faith McCarthy for two weeks, not since McCarthy, her granddaughter, had been accused of assaulting and robbing her.
So when McCarthy started banging on her 222 McLennan Ave. door at 6:10 a.m. seeking to be let in, Hector called for the police.
The call launched a sequence of events that would send two Syracuse Police officers to Upstate University Hospital with head injuries after McCarthy allegedly hit them with a glass bottle.
McCarthy was in custody at the Justice Center Jail and by 1:45 p.m. was charged with felony assault and misdemeanor weapons possession and resisting arrest, Sgt. Tom Connellan said. Police had not identified the officers, pending notification of their relatives.
Hector, 69, said she hoped McCarthy would receive help for the mental illnesses she said her granddaughter suffers.
"I hope they put her in a rehab or something," she said about 9 a.m. The police had just gone.
Hector said she thought McCarthy had left after she first called for help. When her granddaughter reappeared sometime between 7 and 7:30 a.m., she said, she called Onondaga County E-911 again. She felt like a hostage in her own home, she said she told the call taker.
Two officers, a man and woman, arrived and began trying to talk to McCarthy. Hector said she recognized the male officer because he had investigated the assault case.
McCarthy kept giving the officers bogus names, Hector said. When Hector told the police that there was a warrant out for McCarthy's arrest on the assault case, the officers told McCarthy she was under arrest and tried to handcuff her.
McCarthy resisted, holding tight to the porch railing, Hector said. Then McCarthy reached for a glass bottle of some sort of blue juice she had brought and hit the male officer in the head with it, Hector said.
She then turned on the female officer, hitting her several times and with enough force to break the bottle. The woman suffered cuts over her eye and to the side of her face.
Bleeding and battered, the officers held onto McCarthy and called for backup. Hector said she placed a 911 call, too.
More officers arrived before she got off the phone, she said.
How many?
"Lord have mercy, I couldn't count them all," she said.
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