One week after a 42-year-old woman was beaten on the Silver Comet Trail, a 19-year-old woman riding her bicycle on the Iron Hill Trail at Red Top Mountain State Park said a man tried to attack her Tuesday morning with a Taser.
Just before 10 a.m., the woman approached a curve on the trail and noticed a “yellow square object on top of a tree stump” and a white man in his 40s next to the tree, according to a statement from the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office.
“The victim then heard a sound consistent with a Taser being deployed,” authorities said in the statement. “The victim was not struck by the Taser probes but the connection wires were across her head and helmet.”
The woman was with friends and family, but was not riding with them at the time of the incident. She freed herself from the wires and asked others on the trail for help, according to the sheriff’s office.
The suspect fled into a wooded area toward Red Top Estates. He may have been dressed in camouflage, the sheriff’s office said.
This is the second incident on a metro Atlanta trail in the past seven days. Tina Waddell was attacked last Tuesday while walking along the Silver Comet Trail near the Paulding County apartment complex where she lives with her husband. Every bone in her face was broken and she will have to have her jaw wired shut for four to six weeks, Waddell's husband told reporters last week. No one has been arrested, and the Paulding sheriff's office Tuesday established a reward fund to generate leads in the case.
“There’s been no evidence to show” a link between the Silver Comet Trail and Iron Mountain Trail incidents, Bartow sheriff’s Inv. Jonathan White told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Anyone with information on the attempted attack in Bartow is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 770-382-5050, ext. 6030.
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