January 8, 2018
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
An Elk City man received substantial injuries in an Elk City motel after being attacked by a man wielding an hatchet.
Police have a 27-year-old suspect in custody.
Dillon Hill was attacked Sunday by a man with an object described by police as a hatchet and is thought to be recuperating in an Oklahoma City hospital.
The man’s condition is unknown at news time, but was reportedly first taken to Great Plains Regional Medical Center where he was later observed by the responding officer to be lying on sheets saturated in blood. Hill, believed by police to be 26-year-old, was reported to be in stable condition at the time he was transported to OU Medical Center.
According to a police report, Elk City police were called to a room at the Kings Inn on West 3rd Street about 11:30 am on Sunday morning. Driving to the scene of the alleged attack, an officer observed a red Mustang matching the description of one that was seen leaving the motel.
The driver, 25-year-old Jimmy Coleman was arrested for driving without a license.
His passenger, 27-year-old Robert Elias Najera, listed as homeless by the Elk City Police Department, was the suspect in the assault. He was observed to have what looked like blood on his pants and was immediately arrested by police.
During a pat-down, police allegedly found a meth pipe and a cellophane wrapper containing a white crystal-like substance that later tested positive for methamphetamine.
A probable cause affidavit says that while processing the scene of the incident, police observed a large amount of blood in the doorway of the motel room and more blood on the beds and on the west wall.
Najera was arrested for possession of meth and drug paraphernalia and believed will later be charged in the attack on Hill. He’s being held at the Elk City jail on a $250-thousand dollar bond.
In November of 2016, the Beckham County District Court revoked his suspended sentence he received in 2015 on charges of 1st and 2nd degree burglary, concealing stolen property, possession of a firearm after previous conviction and possession of a controlled, dangerous substance.
Late word is that Hill has been discharged from OU Medical Center.
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