RILEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a violent assault and have made an arrest.
Just after 6:30 a.m. Friday, the Riley County Police Department Dispatch Center received a non-emergency call from a 31-year old Manhattan woman reporting she had been battered a few hours earlier by another adult woman known to her, according to a media release.
Initial investigation revealed the victim received serious but non-life threatening injuries to her head resulting from blunt force trauma. She was treated in the Emergency Room at Via Christi Ascension and later released.
Further investigation by officers and detectives throughout the day led to the arrest of Ashley Nicole Wright, 26, of Manhattan. Wright is confined in the Riley County Jail on a $250,000.00 bond on requested charges of Attempted First Degree Murder and Aggravated Burglary.
Wright has previous convictions for aggravated endangerment of a child, theft, criminal damage to property and criminal use of a financial card, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.