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Man Guilty in Ax Attack Sentenced

by KREX News Room
by Danielle Kreutter

Story Created: Oct 23, 2012 at 10:34 PM MDT

Story Updated: Oct 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM MDT

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- A man accused of attacking another person repeatedly with a full-size ax will spend more than three years behind bars.

Mark Hirschberg, 55, was sentenced to 42 months after pleading guilty Tuesday to first-degree assault with a deadly weapon resulting in serious bodily injury.

Police say Hirschberg assaulted an unidentified 33-year-old victim with an ax at Whitman Park before fleeing on a bicycle.

Hirschberg rode to the Colorado River and then swam to a small island, where police and sheriff's officials arrested him.

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