A man has been charged with beating a senior citizen with a hammer last month in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.
Frank Barker, 58, of South Holland, has been charged with one felony count of attempted murder.
Cook County prosecutors said, on Aug. 20, Barker beat a 69-year-old man in the head multiple times with a hammer in the 8300 block of South Green Street, as the victim was getting groceries out of his car.
Prosecutors said Barker hit the victim with the claw end of the hammer using “full power swings,” causing “critical injuries, disfigurement, and major blood loss.”…