Washington woman jailed after man badly beaten with vacuum cleaner

After an argument on Tuesday evening, Michelle Dawn Hawn hit her boyfriend several times in the head with her vacuum, leaving him fighting for his life, according to Clark County Sheriff’s deputies. The blows, inflicted with an upright plastic Dirt Devil, fractured 41-year-old Todd D. Proetel’s skull and the bones around his eyes, according to reports.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Proetel was in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Southwest Washington Medical Center. Deputies were called to Callaham’s Mobile Manor, 10804 N.E. Highway 99, shortly before 6 p.m.
Inside the aging trailer, deputies found Proetel unconscious with a large amount of blood coming from his head. The Sheriff’s Office Tactical Detective Unit investigated, and arrested Hawn, 37, on suspicion of first-degree assault – domestic violence.
Hawn — who documents list as 5 feet, 6 inches and 210 pounds — is being held at the Clark County Jail on $100,000 bail. According to police reports, Hawn admitted to striking Proetel, whom she said lives with her. Reports also say that she said she was intoxicated at the time and that she has a history of bipolar disorder, alcoholism and domestic violence.