Man Randomly Attacked Burlington Woman, Tried to Suffocate Her With Coat: Cops
Burlington police are reporting a terrified random attack on a woman in a residential driveway. The suspect - identified as Richard Sallmann of Delavan - is accused of wrapping a jacket around the woman's head and trying to suffocate her as she sat in a car.
Police say it was a random attack; Richard Sallmann and the victim did not know each other.
A woman wrote on the police department's Facebook page: "My sister in law almost died at the hands of this man. She is very beat up and broken physically right now. Not to mention the mental trauma she is enduring. Vile human being ."
"On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 8:16 a.m. the Burlington Police Department was dispatched to the 100 block of Madison St. for the report of a woman yelling for help," police wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, news release.
"Officers arrived on scene to find a male suspect assaulting a female victim with a jacket wrapped around her head and still engaged in a physical alterca