Two relatives gave investigators very different stories about a violent incident that occurred in late February.
Forty-two-year-old Adam Rush, who was charged in the incident, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday and pled not guilty to aggravated assault on a family member and second-degree domestic battery charges. He was arrested after Baxter County sheriff’s deputies responded to a residence along Kelly Lane after receiving a call from a female reporting that Rush, identified as her son, had attacked her husband with a hammer.
During the court session a request was made by the parents to lift the no contact order so they could meet with their son. Circuit Judge John Putman refused to lift the order but did modify it to allow the parents to visit Rush in jail.
When the male victim was interviewed, he said the couple had been in bed when they heard a knock at the front door and then yelling.
The man said he opened the door and Rush punched him in the face and swung a hammer at his head. He told deputies he managed to dodge a direct blow from the hammer, but the claws of the tool hit him in the shoulder. According to the probable cause affidavit, there was “obvious bleeding” from two “puncture type wounds” on the victim’s shoulder.
The victim said he fought back and was eventually able to break away from his son, go into the house and lock the door. A call to 911 was then made.
Rush had a very different take on the altercation. He told deputies his father hit him “for no reason,” but he was unable to recall any details of the confrontation. He is being held in the Baxter County jail with bond set at $15,000.
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