35-year sentence for Longview hatchet attack

Published 2:31 pm Thursday, April 26, 2012

KELSO — A man who cut off a Longview store security guard’s ear with a hatchet was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

At his sentencing Wednesday, Adrian Jess Kramer, 31, of Longview, apologized for the attack last December at a Fred Meyer store and said his only intent was a theft to support a drug habit.

The Daily News reports he was convicted last week of assault, burglary and robbery.

Security guard David Sullivan confronted Kramer in the parking lot as he was pushing a shopping cart of stolen merchandise. Doctors were unable to reattach the portion of his left ear that was cut off in the fight.