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Warren woman and man she’s accused of killing have history of domestic violence
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Teajuanna J. McKinnon, 37, and the boyfriend she’s accused of shooting to death Saturday have a history of domestic violence.
McKinnon, of First Street Southwest, is expected to be arraigned on a murder charge today in Warren Municipal Court in the death of Rayen L. Patterson, 44, of Oak Circle Southwest.
Police were called to Patterson’s house at 3 a.m. Saturday by McKinnon’s mother, who said: “Somebody shot Ray.”
She went on to explain that McKinnon told her about Patterson’s having been shot, according to the 911 call.
Police arrived to find Patterson with a fatal gunshot wound. McKinnon apparently was not there when police arrived. She turned herself in to Warren police Monday morning after police issued a murder arrest warrant Sunday.
Last Dec. 19, police were called to McKinnon’s home at 5:33 a.m. Patterson reported that McKinnon had stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife, leaving a 2-inch cut behind his ear. He said it happened during an argument they were having about another man.
Patterson refused medical treatment, and police were unable to talk to McKinnon, so a report was placed on file and no charges were filed.
Two months before that, on Oct. 21, 2014, police filed a police report in which McKinnon said she had gone to Patterson’s home about 10 a.m., and they argued.
Patterson “took a metal part of a bed frame and broke out the driver’s window of her 1999 Pontiac Grand Am,” the report says. It caused about $100 in damage.
No charges were filed against him either, according to records at Warren Municipal Court.
In September 2012, Judge Thomas Gysegem of Warren Municipal Court sentenced Patterson to two days in the Trumbull County jail and placed him on two years’ probation after Patterson was convicted of committing domestic violence against McKinnon.
McKinnon also got into a scrap with a female at the Horseshoe Bar, 206 E. Market St., at 1:20 a.m. Feb. 25, 2015, with the other woman striking McKinnon in the head and hand with an unknown object.
Police said McKinnon had a small laceration to her face and hand, and she sought treatment at St. Joseph Warren Hospital.
Magistrate Patrick McCarthy of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court had issued a five-year civil stalking protection order on behalf of McKinnon against the other woman in October 2014.
The murder investigation is the first in Warren this year. Warren’s last homicide was the Nov. 22, 2014, death of Trent Hall, 18, of Braceville Robinson Road in Braceville Township, who was shot and killed by a resident of a home on Starlite Drive Northwest while Hall and others were breaking into the Starlite residence.
An accomplice of Hall’s, Peighton E. Bishop, 18, of state Route 534 in Braceville Township, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery in Hall’s death and sentenced to three years in prison.
The Starlite resident, who suffered a severe cut to the head during a scuffle with the intruders, was not charged.
A juvenile also was connected to the break-in, but officials never provided information on him.