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Warren police say missing woman suffered serious leg injury in Tuesday crash
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
A woman Warren police listed three weeks ago as a missing person suffered a serious leg injury Thursday night while being hit by a car, but police say they don’t know where she went after the accident.
Elaine Shumate, 24, of Zanesville may have suffered a broken leg in the 6 p.m. accident on Parkman Road Northwest, but a police report says she was treated by ambulance personnel at the scene, and it’s unclear whether she went to a hospital.
The woman accused of hitting her, Bianca Nasidka, 19, of Belvedere Avenue Southeast, is charged with felonious assault and child endangering. She was arrested at the apartment complex where the accident occurred.
She was arraigned Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court, where Judge Terry Ivanchak ordered her held without eligibility to make bond because she failed to meet the requirements of bond in a May 30 assault case. Not-guilty pleas were entered to the charges.
Police said Nasidka and Shumate argued, then Nasidka drove backward toward Shumate, hitting her and dragging her several feet until the car wrecked into a fire hydrant.
Nasidka tried to drive away, but the car was too badly damaged. Nasidka then went to the back seat of the car and removed her 8-month-old son, who was not in a seat belt or child seat, the witness said. Ambulance personnel checked on the boy, and he appeared to be OK, police said.
Ambulance personnel also treated Shumate for her leg injuries. Sgt. Joe Kistler of the police department said because Shumate is an adult, they would not have been able detain her regarding the missing-persons report.
Shumate’s family in Zanesville told Warren police May 3 that Shumate may have come to Warren seeking treatment for a heroin addiction.
When police spoke with Nasidka, she said she had come to the apartment to drop off Shumate, but she thought Shumate had tried to take something of hers and confronted her over it.