A 37-year-old man accused of hitting another man in the head with a hammer in East Boston was arrested Wednesday, according to Boston Police.
Eric Vargas, of East Boston, is charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the incident on Tuesday, police said in a statement.
A judge set a $5,000 bail for Vargas during his arraignment in Boston Municipal Court in East Boston, court records show. Vargas will also undergo a competency evaluation, and was committed to Bridgewater State Hospital.
At around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, a man walked into the Boston Police station in East Boston and reported he had been attacked by a man with a hammer earlier that morning, police said.
The man told police that at around 6:30 a.m., when he was walking into a bakery at 40 Maverick Square, a man he didn’t know walked up to him and asked him to use his phone. The man said he didn’t have one and walked into the bakery, police said.
When the man left the bakery, police say the other man, later identified as Vargas, banger him in the head with a hammer.
The man sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby health center, police said.
Officers on patrol found Vargas sitting on the steps of a building on Paris Street at around 5:16 p.m. Wednesday, and arrested him after “further investigation,” police said.
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