Parents arrested after bloody fight
CAMPBELL — Two parents are in jail and their children in the care of authorities after a fight led to one stabbing the other.
Pierre Shaw, 37, and Fikreema Bush, 42, both face charges of domestic violence after their arrests Monday at the Jean Street home they share. The Campbell police report states that Bush cut Shaw with a kitchen knife, sending him to the hospital, after he allegedly assaulted her.
Campbell Municipal Court online records do not indicate charges for either, and court employees did not respond to an information request on Tuesday. It is unclear when either defendant will face arraignment.
Shaw is in the Mahoning County jail, while Bush remains in St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital on a police hold after creating a scene at the police station, the report states.
The police report states that police were called to the Jean Street home about 7:45 p.m. Monday after Mercy Health police called Campbell to report that Shaw was being seen in the emergency room for his wound.
The report states that, upon their arrival, the woman — later identified as Bush — refused to identify herself at first and denied that there had been any problems at the house. After granting police permission to look inside, she conceded that there had been an argument and that several broken items swept into a pile on the floor were the result of Shaw throwing things at her. She said the argument began after he came into the house and accused her of stealing his phone.
The report states she then told police that he punched her multiple times and threw a bag full of household items at her as she followed him up the stairs, so she went down to the kitchen and grabbed two knives and came back upstairs.
She said when she caught up to him in the bedroom, he was wielding a fold-out pocket knife, and she began swinging the kitchen knives at him, slicing his arm.
She told police that he then threw his knife down and told her to tend his wound. When she refused, he left and drove to the hospital.
The report states that police at the hospital spoke to Shaw, who corroborated most of Bush’s story. Bush also reached him by phone and told him he’d be arrested when he got back to the house. Shaw left the hospital with his arm bandaged, but not yet stitched. Police took him back to the hospital later to get it stitched.
He was arrested when he returned to the house. Police found the pocket knife in Shaw’s car. They also found the kitchen knife in the sink with blood on the tip.
The report states that police notified Bush that she also would be arrested for domestic violence and that Mahoning County Children’s Services was called after Bush was unable to find any family or friends to take her two children. She told police she was going upstairs to dress the children, and an officer followed her up to the bedroom.
The report states she shut the door on him immediately and refused to come out. Police had to force open the door and physically restrain Bush to arrest her.
At the police station, Bush allegedly threatened suicide and stated she would make police kill her. They called an ambulance because she stated she was having a panic attack, but EMTs refused to treat or transport her because of her behavior. Police had to take her to the hospital in a cruiser and place a hold on her, the report states.