Three arrested for domestic violence

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested two men Monday afternoon in separate incidents in which they are accused of domestic violence, and a third man was arrested Tuesday morning on the same charge.

About 1:55 a.m. Tuesday, Gordon Sexton, 33, was taken into custody at a home in the 200 block of Granada Avenue after police were called for a 911 hang-up call.

When officers arrived, a woman opened the door and said the father of her child had assaulted her and threatened to kill her. Reports said Sexton was asleep on a couch, and officers went inside and took him into custody.

Reports said the victim was injured, but the injuries were not listed.

About 2:50 p.m. Monday, police arrested Zikome Franklin, 31, at a home in the 3000 block of McGuffey Road, after officers answered a call for a fight between a man and a woman. Reports said a woman told police she and Franklin were arguing because a friend of the woman’s was smoking around their child. The woman said Franklin grabbed her by the neck, pushed her and threw her phone.

Franklin admitted throwing the woman’s phone. The woman signed out a domestic-violence complaint, and Franklin was arrested and taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Just before 2 p.m. Percy Phillips, 24, was arrested at a home in the first block of Lauderdale Avenue. Reports said a woman told police that Phillips, her live-in boyfriend and father of one of her children, choked her and slapped her during an argument, and she was afraid for her life. Reports said the woman had no visible marks or injuries but did appear to be frightened. Phillips also was taken to the jail.

All three men are expected to be arraigned in municipal court today.