By Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
A Bucyrus police officer avoided serious injury after being attacked by a man with a spear Tuesday.
After receiving a 911 disturbance call, Officer Sam Caldwell responded to the 1203 High St. residence at 12:36 a.m. Tuesday. Bucyrus Police Chief Dave Koepke said that the person who made the 911 call became irate with the dispatcher and hung up the phone.
Once Caldwell arrived on scene, forty-one-year-old Chad D. Randall rushed out of the home and attacked the Bucyrus police officer with a spear. The spear was roughly three and a half feet long and had what Koepke said looked like an arrowhead at the end of it.
Caldwell was able to block the man’s rush, forcing the spear to miss him. During the scuffle, Caldwell’s glasses were broken and he was hit in the head, though not by the spear. Caldwell was able to get Randall under control by the time other officers arrived on scene.
Randall was handcuffed and taken to the Crawford County Justice Center. He was charged with assault on a police officer.
“Officer Caldwell was heroic in subduing the man in a situation that could have ended tragically,” Koepke wrote on the Bucyrus Police Department’s Facebook page. “Officer Caldwell suffered some minor injuries from the attack and we are grateful for his safety and great work.”