By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Police are looking for an alleged bat-wielding good Samaritan after a Salina man was struck in the head Friday afternoon in north Salina.
Police responded to a residence in the 600 block of N. Seventh Street at approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday for the report of a person struck in the head with a baseball bat, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning.
When officers arrived, EMS personnel were tending to a 26-year-old Salina man who had a large, open wound on the left side of his head. He was later transported to Salina Regional Health Center.
Forrester said a woman who lived at the residence thought the man was acting strangely and tried to get him to leave. When he refused, she said she went out on the porch, flagged down a passing driver, and asked for help in removing the man from the premises. She said the man who was acting strangely had a machete-type weapon.
The driver went inside the residence and the man was allegedly struck with the baseball bat, Forrester said. The driver then got back in the vehicle and left.
Police would like to speak with the driver, Forrester said. The incident remains under investigation.