Witness testifies against Warren Twp. man in rape trial

WARREN — An 18-year-old city man was living with his sister at an apartment on North Feederle Drive Southeast Oct. 29, 2007, when he arrived home and saw his sister’s roommate running from the apartment, bloody, half-naked, screaming.

“Help me, help me,” Daniel Hoolihan recalled her saying as she ran up to his car and pounded on the window.

The woman was bleeding from her head and wearing only a shirt.

The woman, 21 at the time, ran to another vehicle looking for help and eventually made it to a home, where a call to police was made.

At about the same time, Hoolihan said, he saw “Chuckie” — Charles Lemons III, the girl’s relative, coming out of his sister’s apartment carrying his shirt and boots in his hand and buckling his belt.

“He said, ‘I’ll turn myself in,’” Hoolihan said. Lemons also said, “‘Asia, I’ll kill you,’” Hoolihan said.

Hoolihan testified today in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in Lemons’ rape and assault trial, along with a doctor who treated the woman at St. Joseph Health Center, friends of the victim and a police officer.

For the complete story, see Thursday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com