UPPER PROVIDENCE >> As police investigate a woman’s assault last week, her husband has offered a reward for information leading to the man’s arrest.
According to a blog post by Brian O’Neill, he is offering $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the man who assaulted his wife, Lisa O’Neill, of Phoenixville, on Dec. 4. According to O’Neill, the man hit his wife “hard enough to give her a concussion, and almost a week later she still can’t watch television, tolerate noise, or look at her phone without getting a migraine. She can’t work and she hasn’t been able to attend our boy’s basketball games.”
Lisa O’Neill posted about the assault on her Facebook page, explaining that when the attack occurred, she had her two sons in the back seat of her car.
“I was in shock and so were my children. We were all crying and screaming and I couldn’t see straight,” O’Neill wrote in her post.
Information about the assault was later posted by Upper Providence police on their Facebook page on Dec. 6. In the post, police said that officers responded to Providence Town Center Drive near Market Street at approximately 4:35 p.m. Upon arrival, they spoke with a woman who said she was a victim of assault. She told police she was traveling west on Arcola Road when she accidentally cut off another vehicle as she was trying to enter the left lane.
The operator of the vehicle she cut off followed her into the Wegmans Shopping Center onto Town Center Drive near Market Street, she said. Once there, the unknown man pulled next to her vehicle and exited his vehicle. The man approached the driver’s side window, which was partially open, and began yelling and cursing at her. Even though she apologized to him and pleaded with him to leave her and her kids alone, he reached in window and struck her in the face before fleeing the area, police said.
The suspect is described as an older, heavy-set white male with white hair, wearing glasses and a thin blue jacket. He was operating a newer black 4-door Chevrolet or Chrysler sedan possibly with tinted windows. The vehicle was last seen turning left at the Movie Tavern.
Anyone with information on the incident or identity of the suspect is asked to contact Officer Shilling at 610-933-7899 or by email at 045shi@uprov-montco.org.
