SIDNEY, IA  – The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office arrested 43-year-old David Allen Keeton of Sidney on Saturday an allegations of a hammer assault.

A sheriff’s office press release says deputies arrived at the 100 block of Main Street in Sidney to find a woman bleeding from the head. She told deputies she had been strangled and hit with a hammer.

Keeton is suspected of attempted murder and willful injury with a weapon.

The sheriff’s office says he is held on a $25,000 bond.