AKRON, Ohio — A Summit County judge sentenced 34-year-old Issac Armour to up to 16.5 years in a mental health facility following an attack near an Akron trailhead in 2024.

Armour pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity after three medical professionals determined he was not of sound mind at the time of the attack.

It all happened around 9:17 a.m. Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, in the 1100 block of Cuyahoga Street at the Valley View area of Cascade Valley Metro Park.

Akron Police said a then 33-year-old woman left a bathroom and was grabbed by Armour, whom she had never met, and he began assaulting her.

Good Samaritans heard the woman scream, and together they helped rescue the woman, striking the suspect with a rock.

A conversation with one of those heroes: Woman who used rock to rescue pa

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