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A man has been arrested in the assault of an elderly man with a hammer in Dorchester last week, police said Saturday.
Boston police said officers arrested Michael Leoney, a 58-year-old from Dorchester, Saturday afternoon on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon on a victim over 65 years old.
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The attack took place Sunday around 1:50 p.m. at a residential building off Columbia Road and Washington Street in Dorchester, police have said. The victim told officers he was approached by a man who d gotten out of a car and hit him in the shin with a hammer, then fled.
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