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City cops investigate stabbing, domestic violence
YOUNGSTOWN
City police are investigating two acts of violence early Friday, both involving knives.
A 26-year-old Division Street man is in the Mahoning County jail awaiting arraignment after police were confronted by a woman and several crying children. They were running out of the man’s home at about midnight.
Christopher Dean is charged with resisting arrest and domestic violence. He’s been in the county jail since police took him into custody at the Division Street home Friday.
Police found Dean inside the house holding a knife after the woman and children ran out. He threw the knife after being confronted by police with guns drawn; officers found the weapon and are holding it as evidence.
Reports say the woman, Dean’s girlfriend, told officers Dean had consumed about five beers and began to degrade her children and juvenile guests in the house, calling them fat and other names. She said she asked Dean to stop, and he grabbed her by the throat and began choking her.
The woman said Dean was carrying a folding knife in his pocket.
Reports say several children, age 7, 10 and 13, attempted to help the woman, but the man threatened to “go through them to get to you.” The woman’s 13-year-old daughter ran outside and called police.
Police also are investigating the stabbing of a 38-year-old Southern Boulevard man who told police he had been stabbed during a fight in a bar in the 1400 block of East Midlothian Boulevard. Police interviewed the man at St. Elizabeth Health Center Boardman Campus.
According to reports, the man had been trying to break up a fight between a woman and a man just before 3 a.m. in the bar when he and the woman were pushed to the ground. He realized he had been stabbed when he got up off of the ground.
Police noted that the man did have a puncture wound to the left side of his chest and a cut on his left forearm. No arrest was made.