A 33-year-old Stockton man was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder and elder abuse Saturday after authorities said he pushed down a 72-year-old woman with whom he lives and hit her head with a piece of rebar.
The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said in a report Sunday that the man, Shawn Patric McPherson, lived at the woman's home, in the 11000 block of North Alpine Road, to help her with yard work and horses on the property.
According to the report, McPherson about 7:30 a.m. Saturday pushed the woman to the ground outside the home about three times, bruising her knees and breaking a finger on her right hand. When she stood after her third fall he hit the back of her head with a piece of one-inch thick rebar, causing an arterial bleed, according to the report.
The man then stood over the woman, who talked him out of hitting her again, according to the report.
McPherson took the woman to Lodi Memorial Hospital, where she required about 10 stitches in the back of her head, the report read.
Deputies were dispatched to the hospital, then found McPherson at the Alpine Road home, the report read.
McPherson resisted arrest, and deputies used a stun gun on him, according to the report.
The relationship between McPherson and the woman was described in the report as that of roommates. A Sheriff's Office spokesman did not return a telephone call Sunday for comment.
According to the report, the woman intended to call 911 but was unable to because McPherson had taken her cellular telephone the previous night, when the woman also wanted to call 911. The woman wanted to call 911 that night because McPherson was drunk and had broken a window with his head, according to the report.
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