On May 14, the 42-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk in the 500 block of West Hawthorne Place, when her ex-husband, Paul Woebel, 47, came up behind her and struck her in the head, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said in a bond hearing streamed live Wednesday on YouTube. The woman fell to the ground and Woebel continued hitting her in the arms and head as she tried to shield herself from the blows, Murphy said.
