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Charges pending against two accused in assaults
YOUNGSTOWN
Charges are pending against two people charged with felonious assault in two separate incidents — one involving a gun and the other a knife.
Police took a 20-year-old South Side man into custody for questioning after he reportedly assaulted a man and forced the mother of his child and the child into his car Tuesday. The man was said to have fired a gun during the incident.
Officers were sent to apartments on Kendis Circle on the East Side at 10:42 p.m. for a fight with weapons, but before officers could arrive they learned the suspect was being followed by the victims near the Center Street bridge. Officers pulled the vehicles over along Center Street.
The victims reportedly told officers the 20-year-old suspect approached them in a parking lot on Kendis and forced the 29-year-old East Side woman out of one car and into his car along with their child. The victims said the suspect punched another man in the face and then fired a gun as he was leaving the parking lot.
Officers returned to the parking lot and recovered a spent shell casing in the parking lot. Officers also performed a gunshot- residue test on the hands of the suspected shooter. He was accused of felonious assault, but formal charges have not been filed in court.
Police also responded to a home in the 100 block of Bassett Lane on the East Side at 10 p.m. Tuesday for a fight involving a knife. They were met outside the home by a 28-year-old woman who said she was beaten and threatened with a knife by her roommate.
According to police reports, the woman said she got into an argument with her 29-year-old female roommate and told the woman she wanted her to move out of the house. The victim said the roommate became enraged and began chasing her through the house with a knife.
The woman told police the roommate knocked her to the ground, held the knife to her throat and told her she was not moving anywhere.
Officers entered the house and found the roommate sitting on a chair in the kitchen not far from her two young children sitting on a living-room couch. She admitted the argument and fight, but said there was no knife involved.
Officers recovered a large knife from a kitchen counter not far from the roommate and marked it as evidence.
Reports say the roommate has a previous conviction for domestic violence. She was arrested for felonious assault, but no charges have been filed formally in court.
The roommate’s children were released to their father.