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Woman, 29, arraigned on felonious assault

YOUNGSTOWN — Kesha N. Williams, 29, was arraigned Monday in Youngstown Municipal Court on felonious assault in a Saturday morning incident in which a man said he was struck by a car on Bruno Street near Vestal Road on the West Side.

Police were called there at 11:03 a.m. and spoke to a man who was “screaming in pain” while being attended to by Youngstown firefighters, according to a Youngstown police report.

The man told police that Williams, his child’s mother, had “intentionally run him over as he ran across Bruno Street.” Ambulance personnel took the man to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Officers found Williams and her car at a home on Leo Avenue. She said she and the male had been arguing when she told him to leave the apartment. He went outside and damaged the window of her vehicle before leaving the area on foot, she said.

“She said she got into (her vehicle) to follow him and to question him as to why he damaged the window of the (vehicle). She stated that she did not run him over, rather he jumped in front of it when the (vehicle) made contact with him,” the report states.

She was taken into custody and then taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Officers spoke to the male later at the hospital. He said he and Williams had been arguing at the apartment, and he decided to leave. She followed him in the vehicle. “At one point he threw hair clippers through her window because she was following him. He said that after that, she ran him over as he attempted to cross the street. (He) said that after having been struck by the (vehicle) she shouted that she was going to hit him again,” the report states.

Another vehicle coming down the road likely deterred her from doing that, the man told police. There was “a lot of glass in the driveway where the (vehicle) was parked,” the report states, adding that it is “likely” that the window of the vehicle “was damaged in the driveway, like Kesha stated.”

Williams is set for a preliminary hearing 9:30 a.m. Feb. 18. If she is convicted, she could get several years in prison.

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