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Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, called 911 from a bathroom after an assailant broke through a back door into the Pelosi home in San Francisco early Friday, city officials said, and police officers arrived so rapidly that they witnessed the two men struggling over a hammer in the entryway before the assailant gained control of it and struck Mr. Pelosi.

New elements of the attack were detailed by the chief of the San Francisco Police Department, William Scott, and the San Francisco district attorney, Brooke Jenkins, late Friday.

Chief Scott said inhat when the officers arrived, they saw Mr. Pelosi and the suspect, each with a hand on a hammer. They ordered both men to drop the hammer, he said, and the suspect pulled it away and struck Mr. Pelosi “at least once.”

Mr. Pelosi had surgery for a fractured skull and injuries to his hands and right arm, according to Ms. Pelosi’s spokesman. He is expected to recover.

Growing emotional, Chief Scott said that elected officials’ families “don’t sign up for this, to be harmed. It is wrong. And everybody should be disgusted by this.”

Both Chief Scott and Ms. Jenkins noted that Mr. Pelosi had not spoken freely in the 911 call, and credited the dispatcher who received the call, Heather Grives, with grasping the seriousness of the danger and prompting a rapid response.

“He did speak with the dispatcher, who had to interpret the situation based on some things that he said,” Ms. Jenkins said in an interview with The New York Times. “What I can say is that it was not clear what was going on, and she instinctively felt that this was a more serious situation that necessitated a faster police response.”

The police have identified the suspect as David DePape, 42. Chief Scott said that he was in the hospital but that the police were not at liberty to discuss his condition. Ms. Jenkins said charges would be filed against him next week.

Ms. Jenkins said the suspect’s motivation was still under investigation, and that law enforcement officials were aware of social media postings and blog posts circulating online under the same name that espoused antisemitic and other hateful views, as well as election and coronavirus conspiracy theories. She said she did not know whether the blogs were linked to Mr. DePape.