Police: Man attacked by another wielding 'large ax'

A Perry South man faces charges after Pittsburgh police say he attacked another man with a large ax.

Jacob Thrower, 36, was charged with aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and criminal mischief on Sunday after a fight involving another man shortly after 1 a.m.

In a criminal complaint filed against Thrower, police said they found him sitting on the porch of a house along Perrysville Avenue with blood on his hands and knuckles. When the police officer asked what happened, Thrower was described as becoming “loud and aggressive.”

Police said the apartment was in disarray and noted its overturned furniture, a broken television and holes in the walls and doors.

The victim told police he was laying on his bed when Thrower came into his bedroom and began to threaten him. Thrower then came back a second time — this time with an ax, which he used on the victim’s doors and walls. The man was also struck by the ax, he said, on his arms and face, according to the complaint.

The man told police he was able to take the ax away from Thrower and flee to a house nearby, where police found him still wounded and bleeding. Police found the ax on the porch of the house the other man fled to and described it as having white scuffs on the blade, which matched the damage done to his apartment’s doors and walls.

The victim refused medical treatment, police said.

Thrower is being held at Allegheny County Jail on a $5,000 bail. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Pittsburgh on March 11.

Court documents do not list an attorney for him.