Life Prison Term for Hammer Attack
Posted/updated on: May 2, 2013 at 11:17 am
CARTHAGE — A White Oak man will spend the rest of his life in prison for attacking a Tatum couple with a hammer last year. That’s according to KETK. Michael Christopher Ferris, 21, who has been in jail since April 2012, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in a Panola County courtroom. Tatum police say Ferris knocked on his victims’ door and asked to use the phone. Once inside, police say, he attacked an elderly woman with a hammer and then went to a nearby barn and began beating her husband. Both victims have since recovered from their injuries.
