HIT AND RUN
COLUMBIA: A Mercury Sable sedan struck a sport utility vehicle as it was backing out of a parking space in the 500 block of Avenue North at Makle Park and then fled west toward South Fifth Street at around 3:14 p.m. on May 2, police said. A person was working underneath the vehicle when it was struck, though no serious injuries were reported, police said.
Lancaster police
ASSAULT
LANCASTER: Dierre Javon Williams, 26, of Lancaster, was charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, two counts of harassment, criminal mischief and public drunkenness after punching and breaking the window to a business in the 400 block of North Mary Street at around 2:27 a.m. on May 1, police said. Williams, who was found stumbling in the middle of the road, threatened to kill nurses and security officers at Lancaster General Hospital and spit on and cut a police officer with his nails, police said.