Man charged with domestic violence

By Ed Runyan

The accused is the son of a man whose remains were found along a Bazetta Township road a year ago.

WARREN — Dozie Blackmon Jr., the 20-year-old Saratoga Avenue Southwest man stabbed Sunday evening after police said he assaulted his girlfriend after she had recently given birth to their child, has been charged with domestic violence.

Blackmon pleaded innocent Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court to the charge, a fourth-degree felony punishable upon conviction by up to 18 months in jail.

Judge Thomas Gysegem set bond at $3,500 and a preliminary hearing for 10:15 a.m. July 2.

Police said Blackmon was treated Sunday night at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital for stab wounds to his face, eye, arms back and chest that he suffered on Iddings Avenue Southeast at about 7 p.m.

Police said he was bleeding profusely when they arrived. Witnesses said one of two men who drove up in a sport-utility vehicle on Iddings had stabbed Blackmon with a pocket knife.

Another witness said she heard a commotion in her yard and heard a man say, “You are gonna get it for putting your hands on my sister after she just had a baby,” police said.

Hospital security personnel had escorted Blackmon from the hospital maternity ward about 15 minutes earlier after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in the hallway of the hospital by pushing her down and slamming her head into a wall during an argument, police said.

Police are investigating the stabbing, but so far no charges have been filed against anyone in that incident, police said.

Police said Blackmon is the son of Dozie A. Blackmon Sr., 37, whose skeletal remains were found along an isolated part of Geauga Portage Easterly Road in Bazetta Township on June 14, 2008, a couple months after he went missing from his Warren home. He had been released from prison about a month before that.

Police identified his remains last spring. The death was ruled a homicide.

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