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Homicide suspect arrested for domestic violence
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
An 18-year-old on house arrest from the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center as a suspect in an April homicide was arraigned on a domestic-violence charge in Youngstown Municipal Court.
Kalontae Carter is in Mahoning County jail on $50,000 bond after his arraignment Wednesday before Magistrate Anthony Sertick. He was arrested at a Norwood Avenue home on the North Side about 7:10 a.m. Tuesday.
Carter is charged with the April 29 shooting death of 26-year-old Kristopher Stuart, who was found shot to death in a house on Elm Street with a revolver within reach of his hands.
Carter also was shot in the same incident as was 32-year-old DeJuan Thomas, who is also charged with Stuart’s death.
Police were called to Carter’s home for a report of a fight between a mother and her son. When they arrived, the mother said Carter beat her in the head and face, reports said.
Reports said the mother told the officers she wanted her son out of the house but did not want him arrested. A large portion of the right side of her face was swollen, reports said.
Inside, Carter was wearing an ankle bracelet because of his house arrest, reports said. Carter told the officers he hit his mother after she hit him first. The report said there were no marks on Carter, but the mother told police they were arguing before he hit her three times in the face then threw her on a bed.
Carter was arrested despite his mother’s refusal to sign a domestic-violence form. City Prosecutor Dana Lantz told Sertick the officers were able to make the arrest because of the injuries they saw on his mother.
“Her injuries spoke for themselves,” Lantz said.
Sertick also took Carter to task for a facial expression he made while being arraigned via video from the jail when he learned his bond was $50,000.
“The court doesn’t take lightly facial expressions like that,” Sertick said.
Carter apologized and said he was just trying to figure out what his bond is.
Should he make bond, Carter is also forbidden from having any contact with his mother or with his home.
The domestic violence charge is a misdemeanor. Carter pleaded not guilty to the charge.