Warren women’s fighting leads to vehicular assault

Staff report

WARREN

One woman remained in the emergency room at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital Tuesday after a fight among several young city women on Hamilton Street Southwest at 5:15 p.m. Monday that led to four people being hit by a car.

The driver, Shawnda L. Worthy, 22, of Jackson Street Southwest, appeared in Warren Municipal Court Tuesday, charged with four counts of felonious assault.

Police said Worthy went to the home to fight over a male that she and another woman were seeing and having children with. After words were exchanged, Worthy drove her car at the women, jumping a curb and hitting them.

The 7-month-old son of one of the women was sitting in a stroller and also was hit by the car. He and the stroller were pinned under Worthy’s car but came loose as she backed up, police said.

The baby’s mother, 24, of the Hamilton Street address, had been released from the hospital by Tuesday and talked to detectives, police said. The hospital had no record of her son or one of the other women, who is 29 years old.

Worthy was ordered held in the Trumbull County jail in lieu of $200,000 bond. If convicted, she could get more than 30 years in prison.

Lavia Broadenax, 28, of Phillips Drive Southwest, remained in Trumbull Memorial Tuesday afternoon. Her condition was not available.