Deputies attacked while responding to home in Mims

Two Brevard County deputies were attacked and hurt Tuesday morning while responding to a disturbance call at a home in Mims, deputies said.

Deputies Michael Hriciso and Marie Skinner went to the home on the 2600 block of Pineapple Avenue at about 11:25 a.m. after a 911 caller reported hearing what sounded like a "violent" argument coming from the backyard of a home, the Sheriff's Office said.

The deputies were initially denied entrance into the residence, but they went around back when they heard an argument in the backyard.

As the two deputies tried to break up the argument, the man, identified as 22-year-old Skylar Francis, pulled out a collapsible baton and began beating Hriciso in the head and face, the Sheriff's Office said.

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"They tried to separate the two, and as they did, the white male suspect pulled out a collapsible baton and started striking one of our deputies," Sheriff Wayne Ivey said.

Skinner came to Hriciso's aid, but she, too, was struck in the head.

As other deputies arrived on scene, the woman in the argument, identified as 22-year-old Courtney Johnson, "began to interfere with the arrest of the male subject," deputies said.

Hriciso incurred several blows to the head, suffered severe injuries and was taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne for treatment. Skinner was taken to Parrish Medical Center in Titusville. Both deputies are expected to recover.

"You go from being at a call where you are trying to help somebody to being at a call where somebody is trying to take your life," Ivey said.

Neighbors said they were shocked that two law enforcement officers were attacked on their street.

"It should not have gotten to this level," Rose Fishmon said.

Despite their injuries, the two deputies were able to take both Francis and Johnson into custody, the Sheriff's Office said.

Francis has been charged with two counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and is being held in the Brevard County Jail on no bond.

Johnson was charged with resisting arrest without violence. She posted bond early Wednesday morning and was released from jail.

Investigators aren't aware of any previous incidents at this home.

Skylar Francis and Courtney Johnson are charged in the attack of two Brevard County deputies Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. (Brevard County Sheriff's Office)