Man jailed for pulling out tuft of woman’s hair

February 17, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who police said pulled out a large tuft of hair from a woman’s head Saturday and broke a window to get back into her home is in the Mahoning County jail on $15,000 bond.

Jordan Burnett, 23, of Tyrell Avenue, was arraigned Tuesday in municipal court before Magistrate Anthony Sertick on a fourth-degree felony charge of domestic violence.

Burnett is accused of pulling a large clump of hair out of the head of the mother of one his children Saturday in her home on Shehy Avenue.

Sertick turned down a request for court-appointed counsel from Burnett after he said he makes $1,000 every two weeks working construction. Burnett also told the magistrate he has four young children.

Only one of the children lives with him, Burnett told the magistrate, and he pays child support for two of them. The children who do not live with him live with their mothers, Burnett said.

Burnett also has a previous domestic-violence conviction, said Assistant City Prosecutor Jeffrey Moliterno, from 2011. In that case, the charge was amended to a fourth-degree misdemeanor from a first-degree misdeameanor as part of a plea agreement. Burnett is now charged with a felony because of the prior conviction, Moliterno said.

Police were called about 9 p.m. Saturday to an apartment in the 1200 block of Kendis Circle on a report of a stabbing. When they arrived, they found Burnett bleeding from a wound to his leg.

Reports said Burnett told police the mother of one of his children stabbed him during an argument at her home on Shehy Avenue, but he also admitted pulling her hair. He drove himself to his mother’s apartment, then called police.

The woman told police she had been arguing with Burnett when he grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground, ripping out a large clump of hair in the process, reports said. The victim and a witness managed to get Burnett outside, but he tried to force his way back inside through a window, first ripping the screen off then breaking the glass. The woman said she stabbed Burnett because she was afraid for her life, reports said.

Reports said the woman told police when Burnett stuck his leg through the window, she stabbed him.

Burnett was taken into custody by police after he was treated for his wound at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.