by Randy Picking ~ Salina Post

A 20-year-old Salina man tells police he was hit in the face with a hammer by a stranger in a dark SUV late Sunday night.

Police were sent to the home of Chase Kado in the 700 block of Sherman around noon Monday for a welfare check after a friend found blood on the front porch.

Kado told officers that when he was walking home between 11 and midnight Sunday, he got into a short argument with a white male medium build who was in a SUV parked behind his home in the alley.

Kado said the man hit him in the face with a hammer and left. Kado was taken to Salina Regional Health Center by EMS, and treated.

He did not suffer any facial fractures.