Man arrested for bat attack on neighbor

Man arrested for bat attack on neighbor

WARREN — A 39-year-old city man has been charged with attacking an 18-year-old neighbor with a baseball bat in an ongoing neighborhood dispute on Penn Avenue Northwest.

Warren police charged Daniel Boone, 39, of 241 Penn Ave., with felonious assault. He pleaded innocent to the charge Monday in Warren Municipal Court and was released on $50,000 bond. He is set to appear again Sept. 10.

Police said they arrived Sunday at around 2:30 p.m. at the home of Lisa and Joe Wright, 442 Penn Ave., where they found the Wrights’ 18-year-old son, Tracy, after he had been assaulted with a baseball bat.

The Wrights said Boone had assaulted the 18-year-old and that their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son had also been assaulted. They accused Boone and his 15-year-old son in the attacks. The Wrights also said the Boones damaged their car and truck by breaking out windows and flattening tires.

The three Wright children and their mother, who was not assaulted, were treated at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital and released.

Warren Detective Sgt. Jeff Cole said the investigation into the incident is ongoing with the possibility that the 15-year-old will also be charged in juvenile court.

Lisa Wright said the Boones and about a dozen other people from the neighborhood descended on her yard Sunday afternoon after she and her 18-year-old son went through the neighborhood trying to recapture their dog, which had gotten loose.

While chasing the dog, neighbors started threatening them, she said. Then the 15-year-old came into the yard and started threatening her 14-year-old daughter with a baseball bat. At about that same time, Daniel Boone started assaulting her 18-year-old son, she said.

The worst of the injuries were to the 18-year-old, Wright said. He suffered a bruised neck and leg and bruised ribs, she said.

Wright said she believes a fight between her 14-year-old daughter and a neighbor girl caused some of the animosity in the neighborhood. The neighbors tried to press charges against her daughter and also tried to get a restraining order against her, but no charges were filed and no restraining order was granted, she said.

A neighbor had also threatened her 18-year-old son with a baseball around the middle of last week, she said.

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