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Early morning last Saturday, Joshua Burton stepped outside his apartment in Fountain Square to let out the dogs — Corn and Princess Poppy.
It wasn’t long after he left that his spouse, Christina, heard a commotion outside their unit in the 900 block of Prospect Street. She peeked out the stairwell and saw her husband bleeding on the ground and a man standing close by holding a 2×4 piece of wood.
The seemingly random attack landed Joshua Burton, 37, in an intensive care unit, having undergone two surgeries to relieve swelling around his brain.
“It’s undetermined when he’ll wake up,” Christina Burton said Friday afternoon. As the couple endured surgeries, questions about who was behind the assault remained.
Roughly five days later, Indianapolis police announced an arrest.
Brandon Eaton, 35, is jailed on a charge of aggravated battery at a substantial risk of death in the case. A police report states when Christina Burton discovered the attack, Eaton told her to call 911 and then ran away.