12-year-old Boardman boy charged with domestic violence

BOARDMAN — Township police arrested a 12-year-old boy Wednesday on a charge of domestic violence after police said he punched his mother and threatened to kill her at their Colleen Drive residence. 

According to the police report, the boy, who is a Canfield Middle School student, became angry when his mother told him to go to his room. 

He then began punching his mother and told her, “I’m going to pound you into the ground and kill you.”

The mother told police she would like to press charges against him. The boy was taken to the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center.