Created: 6/10/2009 8:34:34 AM 
Gibsonville, NC -- A woman allegedly beaten and hogtied by her son could be released from the hospital today or tomorrow, according to Gibsonville Police Chief Mike Woznick.
Her son, John Woodrow Reese, Jr., 39, is in custody.
Yesterday afternoon, he allegedly broke into his mother's home on Burlington Avenue assaulted her with a baseball bat and bound her with duct tape. His mother, Helen Reese, 58, was seriously injured and transported to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.
Woznick said the woman's ear was also torn from her scalp, her skull is fractured, and she was beaten in the chest with the bat.
"They have some additional tests to finish, but she is in otherwise good condition. Apparently she received more superficial damage than deep tissue or organ," says Woznick.
Helen Reese was able to escape sometime after 3:00 am and call 911 from a neighbor's house.
"He's over there at my house and he's done stole my money and my billfold and everything," she said in the 911 call.
"He had me tied up since six o'clock. I just got lose. I crawled out the window and I came over here to my neighbor's house as soon as possible," she said.
Listen to 911 call from victim
Investigators with Alamance City-County Gang Crimes Task Force located John Reese, Jr. down around 10 a.m. on N. Church Street in Burlington. A witness saw him sitting behind a "cherry-picker" truck on the side of the road, Woznick said.
Reese was taken to the Burlington Police Department.
He is charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, felonious restraint and other felony charges.
Woznick said they don't currently know a motive, but said he believes money and drugs might have been factors.
"He supposedly was a substance abuser," Woznick said.
Reese was previously convicted of attempted first degree rape and four counts of unemployment fraud.
WFMY News 2
