Suspect faces numerous charges after alleged assault on Delaware policeman and elderly couple

Delaware State Police have arrested a man in connection with assaults on an elderly couple and a 22-year veteran officer of the Delmar Police Department, all of whom were hospitalized with significant injuries, the agency said.

The initial 911 call about a fight in progress came shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday in the southern Delaware town along the Maryland border. The caller reported someone "being disorderly, fighting with other residents of the house and destroying items inside the residence," a state police news release said. Shortly thereafter, someone from a property across the street called 911 to report "he and his wife had been assaulted by a male subject" who had left the scene, the release said.