A Kansas woman was in a parking lot outside a Whole Foods store when a man with a hammer allegedly attacked her.

Christopher Brewer, 50, was arrested on Sunday and charged with aggravated battery after police said he hit an 85-year-old woman in the head with a hammer. The woman, who has not been named publicly, was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery for facial fractures. According to a criminal complaint obtained by local Kansas City, Missouri-based Fox affiliate WDAF, a shopper loading groceries into his car in the parking lot of an Olathe Whole Foods store heard the woman scream and saw a man, later identified as Brewer, hitting the woman with a hammer.

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