VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — A man accused of attacking an Alabama mayor outside a barber shop has been charged with assault, police said Monday.
Benny Green of Irondale will be held on $150,000 bond in the Jefferson County jail, Vestavia Hills police said in a statement.
Talladega Mayor Larry Barton told authorities that Green assaulted him on Saturday morning while he was getting out of his car outside of a barbershop where he works part time in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham located about 55 miles west of Talladega.
Barton, 75, said the suspect used a baseball bat or a similar object to repeatedly strike him in his head, according to the police statement. Green tried fleeing the scene on a bicycle but was stopped by bystanders, the statement said.
Barton was taken to the University of Alabama Birmingham hospital. A receptionist said he was still there Monday, but that details on his condition were being released only to his family.