Felonious assault charge filed after stabbing in Austintown

AUSTINTOWN — A township woman is charged with felonious assault after an argument with her husband turned violent.

Larita Moyer, 48, was taken into custody just before 2 a.m. Saturday, after her husband, Jason, asked neighbors to call the Austintown Police Department because he’d been stabbed.

The episode began in the couple’s Amberly Drive home at about 1:20 a.m.

Jason Moyer, 40, told police the pair were arguing in their bedroom, when Larita Moyer retrieved something from a dresser drawer. He said because he didn’t know what she had in her hand, he grabbed her and pushed her onto the bed.

He said their 15-year-old son then entered the room with an aluminum baseball bat and said he intended to protect his mother.

The victim told police he began wresting the bat away from his son, at which time the wife stabbed him in the right arm.

He said after struggling briefly with his wife, he fled the house with the bat, went to his neighbor’s house and asked them to dial 911.

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