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Domestic disputes turn into assaults
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Two people arrested in separate domestic incidents Thursday afternoon, including a person who was shot in April, were arraigned in municipal court on charges of felonious assault.
Carrie Schwab, 38, of North Dunlap Avenue and Jazzmen Blackmon, 30, of Tampa Avenue, are both in the Mahoning County jail after their arraignments in municipal court Friday.
Blackmon was arrested about 4:30 p.m. at a home in the 2700 block of Robinwood Avenue after police were investigating complaints by his wife that he had attacked her at a home on Tampa Avenue earlier in the day. Reports said Blackmon denied hitting his children with a baseball bat but admitted grabbing his wife by the throat.
Blackmon’s wife told police earlier who responded to their Tampa Avenue home that Blackmon and she argued and he grabbed her by the throat, then hit one of her daughters in the face with a baseball bat and choked her. He then chased both her daughters with a baseball bat before fleeing to Robinwood Avenue, where he was arrested, a police report states.
Judge Robert Milich set his bond at $100,000. He faces two counts of felonious assault.
Blackmon was wounded in a shooting April 1, also in the 2700 block of Robinwood Avenue. His wife told police at the time that someone had pulled up in a car and fired several shots at him. Blackmon was shot in the chest and treated at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
Schwab, meanwhile, was arrested at her home in the 500 block of North Dunlap Avenue when police were called there about 6:45 p.m. for a stabbing. Reports said when officers arrived, Schwab was on top of her mother but the mother managed to escape when police came.
Inside, there was blood on a couch and the mother was holding a knife she had taken away from Schwab, reports said. Reports said the mother was lying on a couch when Schwab suddenly attacked her, blaming her for problems in her life.
Reports said the mother suffered a stab wound to the thigh and had marks and cuts on her face and neck.
When Schwab was taken to the jail, she slammed her head at least 20 times into a divider in the seats of a police cruiser, reports said, and she complained that she did not want to go to jail.
Schwab wept through her entire arraignment. Her bond was set at $50,000 and a mental-health evaluation also was ordered for her.