Horror video captures repeat offender allegedly attacking 75-year-old woman, gouging her eye with spiked stick

Newly released video has captured the horrifying moment a man wielding a wooden stick with a metal screw attached to one end allegedly brutally attacked an elderly woman at random early December.

Authorities said the suspect, who has a "violent person" caution and an extensive criminal history including random assaults, allegedly swung the weapon "like a baseball bat" and struck the unsuspecting 75-year-old woman in the face. The victim, Jeanette Marken, was left with "a laceration that...