US congresswoman poured coffee over attacker to deter him, chief of staff says

Man, 26, arrested after attack in elevator in Angie Craig's Washington apartment building early on Thursday morning

Angie Craig, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota who was assaulted in her Washington apartment, reportedly deterred her attacker by pouring hot coffee over him, it emerged on Friday.

Representative Craig defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically OK," her chief of staff, Nick Coe, said in a statement on Thursday.