NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
February 20, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

MILLIGAN ATTACK UNDER INVESTIGATION

     The Okaloosa Sheriff ’s Office is investigating a burglary and sexual assault that occurred at a home in Milligan Monday.  The victim says she got out of the shower and went into the living room because she heard a dog barking. She reports being hit in the back of the head and knocked unconscious. When she awoke, she was bound and blind-folded, and had been sexually assaulted with an object. The victim was able to use her tongue to dial 9-1-1. She is currently being treated at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center . Nothing was reported stolen at the home. Anyone who saw a suspicious car parked in the vicinity of Buck Ward Road and Old River Road between ten and twelve Monday morning is asked to please contact Investigator Mike Irwin at the Criminal Investigations Division, 850-609-2000.

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