After an investigation continued into the assault of a Port Hadlock woman earlier this month, the Jefferson County Prosecutor’s Office charged a suspect with first-degree robbery domestic violence.

Atticus Burrows, 21, who was living in a tent in Port Hadlock at the time, initially was charged Jan. 14 with with first-degree assault, causing bodily harm to his grandmother in a Jan. 13 incident.

Charge revised

The prosecutor’s office added the count of first-degree robbery domestic violence Jan. 16 after a phone was found in Burrows’ tent.

“Detectives located a black phone with a case on it,” an affidavit stated. “The exterior of the case had signs of what appeared to detectives to be blood.”

The victim was shown a photo of the phone and case and confirmed it was the phone on her nightstand that went missing “sometime during the assault.”

“Due to the theft of the phone, and the prevention of knowledge of the theft of the phone from the violent assault upon (the victim) whereby bodily injury was inflicted, charges were amended to include robbery first degree,” the affidavit stated.

As of Jan. 15, the victim had been released from a hospital and is undergoing further treatment, the affidavit stated.

Jefferson County Superior Court Judge Keith Harper ordered Burrows, who requested to be represented by a public defender, to undergo a competency evaluation.

Burrows was being held as of Jan. 28 in the Jefferson County Jail on a $150,000 cash bond.

The attack

Burrows initially was arrested Jan. 13 for attempted murder after his grandmother was assaulted at Port Hadlock Apartments, 50 Old Hadlock Road.

After breakfast, the victim went to lay down and allegedly was assaulted by Burrows.

“A large amount” of blood was found on the bed and pillow, leading investigators to believe that is where the crime occurred. The victim made her way through the apartment to a neighbor’s apartment for help, the affidavit stated.

The victim was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with an “obvious open-skull wound and had what appeared to be brain matter on the exterior of her head.”

Law enforcement officers located a tent about 800 feet away from the apartment building where they heard someone moving around. When officers asked who was in the tent, Burrows replied, “Just a little boy.” Officials asked him to open the tent, and they saw Burrows with what appeared to be blood on his clothing.

A K-9 unit was brought in to help track the route Burrows allegedly took from the apartment to the tent.

The victim reportedly gave information to a responding emergency medical technician that indicated Burrows may have used a rock during the attack.