A 36-year-old Oxon Hill man was sentenced to 40 years in prison for sneaking up on the mother of his two children and attacking her with a hammer.

Prince George’s County Circuit Court Judge Nicholas E. Rattal sentenced Thomas Richard Smith to life in prison with all but 40 years suspended. Smith pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder for a violent attack against his ex-girlfriend, a 28-year-old woman also from Oxon Hill.