Charges Filed in Rochester Machete Attack That Sent Man to Hospital

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News)- The Olmsted County Attorney’s Office has filed charges in connection with a machete attack that occurred in Rochester earlier this month. 

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Rochester police responded to the incident on February 3 in the 900 block of Elton Hills Court Northwest. Responding officers located the wounded man in the 200 block of Penny Lane Northeast. 

Police said he left the residence in a vehicle after being cut. At the time police said the incident began as a verbal dispute that turned physical.

Both the suspect and the man who was cut were cooperating, police said. 

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Man Charged for Machete Attack at Rochester, MN Home

On Thursday, the man accused of wielding the machete was charged. He is identified as 38-year-old Anthony Nolan White of Rochester. 

White told police that the other man, who is named in the complaint but not charged in the case as of Friday morning, came into his bedroom uninvited and refused to leave when White asked him to, the charges say. 

White told officers that the man who was cut punched him in the face twice and that he swung the machete at him in an effort to defend himself, the complaint says. 

The charges say the wounded man had an 8-10 inch laceration on the left side of the wounded man’s jaw and neck. Police said he was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital for further care. 

An update on his condition is not available. White is charged with one count of second-degree assault and a count of fifth-degree assault.

He is scheduled to make his first appearance in June.