Woman jailed after beatdown at the BMV

YOUNGSTOWN

A woman holding a child who police said hit another woman several times Thursday inside the Bureau of Motor Vehicle office at 3623 Market St. is in the Mahoning County jail.

Police arrested Shalaya Mitchell, 24, of Wickcliffe Circle in Austintown, on charges of violating a protection order and assault. She is expected to be arraigned this afternoon in municipal court.

Reports said officers were called to the BMV just before 12 p.m. for a fight outside the offices and when they arrived they found Mitchell and the father of their son, who is almost a year old. The child was in the mother’s car, reports said.

Reports said the father did not want to press charges as long as Mitchell left and police told Mitchell to leave. Reports said she drove out of the back parking lot and officers stayed in that lot while the father of the child and a woman he was with were inside the BMV.

About five minutes later, police were motioned back inside by employees and when they got inside they saw Mitchell inside and noticed her car in front of the building, reports said. The woman who was with the child’s father told police Mitchell came into the BMV holding the baby and began hitting her several times in the head.

The brother of the woman broke up the assault, reports said.

The woman declined medical attention and Mitchell was arrested.

Reports said the baby was given to his father with the consent of Mitchell.