A Missouri woman has been charged with with domestic assault after a violent fight with her boyfriend ended when she hit him with garden shears and tried to run him over with his truck.
Cheri Newark, 48, denied trying to hit him with his truck as he ran for safety in the house, KTLO reported.
“I would never try to run him over,” she told Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies during questioning. “If I was gonna run him over, I would run him over, you know what I’m saying?”
A probable cause statement says that the pair had gotten into an argument, leading the boyfriend to get into his truck to drive away. Newark followed him into the truck and began hitting and kicking him and throwing things at him. The boyfriend was also fighting with her and at one point bit her on the hand.
The boyfriend said he struck back in self-defense, a claim that Newark also made. That’s when she said she grabbed the garden shears and hit him in the head. Deputies noted contusions on the boyfriend’s torso as well as a three-inch cut on his head. Newark had a bruise below one eye and a cut on her thumb.
After Newark hit him with the garden shears, the boyfriend got out of the truck and ran for the house. That’s when Newark took over the driver’s seat and drove toward him, prompting him to take over behind a tree. Newark drove past him, and he ran into the house, locked the doors, and called 911.
Newark broke the screens on two windows trying to get in before deputies arrived.
In addition to a charge of domestic assault causing serious injury, Newark is charged with armed criminal action. She was released from jail on Friday on her own recognizance.
The boyfriend was not charged.
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[Featured image: Cheri Newark/Douglas County Sheriff’s Office]
