Man Strikes Woman with Butt of Gun, Friend Tells Police

Police were told a man pointed a gun at two women and hit one of them repeatedly with it.

But when police needed more information for their investigation, one woman gave police a false name and the other refused to cooperate.

The man may have robbed an apartment in the 6400 block of West Norwich Avenue before 5:30 am. May 6, according to the Greenfield Police Department report.

At least, that's what the caller told officers.

The apartment renter told police a friend of hers, who had been staying with her, got a visitor at around 5:20 a.m. and her friend let the man, whom she described as her brother’s friend, into the apartment.

After the apartment’s renter went back to bed, she told police she heard her friend scream repeatedly. The woman got out of bed and stood behind her door but was knocked to the ground when the door opened suddenly and hit her.

The apartment's renter told police she then saw the man strike her friend with the butt of a gun in the side of the head repeatedly. The man pointed the gun at both woman, the report said, and he kept trying to get the woman’s friend to go with him. He also kept asking her where the money was in the apartment.

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The woman who lived in the apartment was able to close her bedroom door and held it shut by leaning her body against it. She said she heard the man drag her friend through the apartment. When she left her bedroom, both her friend and the man were gone.

The 47-year-old caller, who gave the account of an armed intruder to police, gave police a false name and was arrested for obstructing. The other woman refused to cooperate with police or provide any information, according Greenfield Police Chief Brad Wentlandt.