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A Louisville man injured two people during a burglary early Friday morning and caused over $1,000 damage to their residence, according to the Blount County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities arrested Aaron David Switzer, 39, Old Topside Road, Louisville, on charges of especially aggravated burglary, domestic violence with aggravated assault, domestic violence with assault, and resisting arrest.

The victims, a 65-year-old man and a 63-year-old woman, both of Louisville, were treated at University of Tennessee Medical Center and released.

Blount County Sheriff's deputies responded to a Louisville residence at about 2:30 a.m. Friday to a report of a burglary in progress. Deputy Jeremiah Babb could hear yelling coming from inside the house.

The suspect came out and "was acting very hostile and screaming towards myself and other officers," Babb stated in the report. The man refused to listen to deputies' commands and resisted "by force." Deputies used a Taser to help control him.

According to the victims, the suspect "broke into their home and wanted money from them." He got in by breaking a window out of a basement door, an arrest warrant stated. The victims said the man became very angry, started pushing them around, and caused damage to the house.

He allegedly pushed the older man down the stairs, causing injury to his head and damaging a stair rail. The woman had an arm injury, the report stated.

The suspect was unarmed and had used drugs and alcohol, according to the report.

The estimated damage to the door window, stairway, a wooden fence, glass table and coffee table, totaled $1,700.

Switzer was being held in lieu of $63,000 in bonds pending 9 a.m. June 25 hearings in Blount County General Sessions Court.