A 27-year-old man faces several felonies after being accused of attacking a man with a box cutter, baseball bat and curtain rod inside a Cobb County home, authorities said.
Ricardo Bernard Wilcox was arrested on five charges Thursday after the incident at a home off Hiram Lithia Springs Road in unincorporated Powder Springs, according to Cobb police arrest warrants.
Between 4 p.m. and 10:45 p.m., Wilcox attacked the man and prevented him from leaving the home, the warrants said. During the incident, the victim suffered a 4-inch deep cut from a box cutter, bite marks on his back and bruising on much of his body, authorities said.
The victim was beaten with a baseball bat and a curtain rod, and those tools were also used to break seven doors inside the home, according to Wilcox’s warrants. The damage to the home was estimated at $350, police said.
A motive was not provided in the warrants, and the relationship between the suspect and victim was not released. However, a simple battery charge categorized the attack as a family violence incident.
The other charges Wilcox faces include two counts of aggravated assault and one count each of false imprisonment and criminal trespass, Cobb jail records show. He remained in custody Tuesday night without bond.
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