An Evansville man is accused of biting a sheriff’s deputy after attacking multiple victims.
Evansville Police Department responded to a domestic violence call in progress after an 11-year-old girl reported that Christopher Patrick Andrew, 43, of Evansville had physically assaulted her and a man at a residence in the 1500 block of West Missouri Avenue on Saturday evening.
A Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s deputy was the first to locate Andrew, who had fled the scene on foot and was found in a nearby alley.
During the arrest, Andrew violently resisted by repeatedly striking the deputy, biting him on the forearm and sustaining the bite for several seconds, Andrew ripped the deputy’s portable radio away and then threw it back at him.
Both the deputy and an arriving EPD officer were able to subdue Andrew and take him into custody. The deputy sustained multiple scratches and a deep bite wound.
At the original call location, officers found that Andrew had struck the 11-year-old girl in the face, assaulted a man causing a bloody nose, and committed these acts in the presence of two additional juvenile witnesses.
Prior to the deputy’s arrival, Andrew had also attacked the girl’s father in the alley, striking him from behind without warning and causing him to briefly lose consciousness. The father was evaluated on scene by ambulance personnel.
Andrew was medically cleared at Deaconess Midtown Hospital and then transported to the Vanderburgh County Jail by the Evansville Police Department.
He’s been charged with battery against a public safety official; resisting law enforcement causing bodily injury; battery, adult against a child less than 14; domestic battery in the presence of a child less than 16; battery causing serious bodily injury.
Sheriff officials said the deputy was going to be ok.
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