The Talbot County Sheriff’s Office recently investigated a domestic assault, which took place in Easton. Deputies were dispatched to the 25000 block of Royal Oak Road, where they found a victim with visible injuries consistent with an assault. The suspect, identified as Richard Traver Dunkerly Jr., a 27-year-old resident of Centreville had fled the scene before authorities arrived. Dunkerly was located, apprehended and subsequently handed over to Talbot County deputies. He was charged with both first- and second-degree assault.