Man dies after fight with girlfriend

May 20, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Call records show police had been to the home four times since early March where a man was stabbed and later died Tuesday morning.

Rashad Bailey, 23, of 1425 Maplewood Court, died at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was taken after police found him bleeding about 1:40 a.m. Tuesday at his home.

Bailey’s death is the sixth homicide in Youngstown in 2015.

Arrested on a charge of murder was Bailey’s live-in girlfriend, Autumn Hines, 19. She told police she stabbed Bailey after he punched her in the mouth. She is expected to be arraigned in municipal court today.

Chief of Detectives Capt. Brad Blackburn said the stabbing occurred after the two had been arguing.

Call records from the department show that officers were called to the address March 12 and 25 and April 13 and 18. All but the call April 13 were for fights, records show.

Detective Sgt. Darryl Martin, one of the investigators on the case, said Hines had filed several reports against Bailey for abuse but never followed them up to press charges.

The couple has two young children who were present at the time of the argument and stabbing, Martin said. Additionally, Hines is pregnant, Martin said.

Reports said the first officers on the scene found Bailey lying on his back on the front porch bleeding from a stab wound to the chest.

Court records do not show either Hines or Bailey with any prior incidents of domestic violence.

Bailey was sentenced to 30 days in jail in 2012 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to a charge of receiving stolen property, and he also pleaded no contest and was found guilty in January 2014 to a charge of obstructing justice in municipal court. He was sentenced to time served, which was 19 days in the county jail, and also ordered to two years of “intensive probation.”

Hines has no criminal record.

The city has not experienced a homicide since the weekend of April 17-19, when three people were killed.

Last year, Youngstown had 19 homicides. At this point in 2014, the city had two homicides.