Siblings charged following stabbing

Connie Melissa Hand, 30, 3145 Cherokee Road, Comer, was charged with aggravated assault, battery FVA and a probation violation.

Her brother, Roger Eugene Bray, Jr., 32, of the same address, was charged with obstruction or hindering persons making an emergency phone call.

According to the incident report, officer Jeffrey Vaughn took the call and while en route, 9-1-1 told him there were two subjects bleeding from stab wounds.

Once he arrived, he found Hand and her sister-in-law in the yard, both bleeding from their hands. Bray and his wife stated that they had allowed Hand and her companion to move into their home about four months ago, but that the couple has no respect for their home. Bray said he told them to get out, and that’s what started the argument. He said he asked Hand to stop screaming at someone on her cell phone and she refused. This caused an argument and a shoving match between Bray and Hand’s boyfriend. Hand then reportedly went into the kitchen and grabbed a knife, yelling that she was going to kill Bray. Bray’s wife allegedly tried to get the knife away from her and Hand stabbed her sister-in-law in the hand. The other three struggled over the knife and that’s allegedly when Bray’s wife got cut.

Hand said she was trying to call 9-1-1 when her brother knocked the phone out of her hand and busted it on the floor. Deputy Vaughn noted that there was a broken cell phone on the floor lying in a pool of blood. Hand was transported to Ty Cobb Hospital for her injuries before being taken to jail.

In another incident, battery and false imprisonment were reported on Peaceful Lane last week after a woman on Hwy. 29 North said her boyfriend had torn her clothes off and used a pair of scissors to cut off her hair after the pair returned from a party at his sister’s home. She said he also twisted her neck and poured water over her and then forced her to stay in his truck all night, naked and wet. She said he wiped dog feces in her face. Her boyfriend told a different story, saying that she was extremely intoxicated and had cut her own hair off after he said something nice about another woman’s hair. He said she urinated on herself and he had helped her undress and put on pajamas and had called his sister to help. He said he took the scissors away from her and she then pulled out a knife and began stabbing holes in his seat. She also allegedly struck and bit him. They ended up spending the night at a motel in Commerce, the boyfriend said, and he thought all was well when he dropped her off at her home this morning. Deputy Wesley Bryant noted that the man’s seat did have holes in it and that there was pair of scissors with black hair on them in his truck, as well as a pair of pants that allegedly belonged to the victim. All items taken were placed in an evidence locker and the incident remains under investigation.

Other incidents on file at the sheriff’s office last week included:

•A man on Sherwood Drive reported that his red nose pit bull with a brown body and white chest had been stolen.

•Three threats or attempts of suicide were reported last week around the county.

•A woman on Black’s Creek Church Road reported that her son’s truck had been taken.

•A middle school student was charged with disrupting public school, battery on a school teacher and criminal interference with government property after he reportedly refused to listen to instructions from his teacher and elbowed that teacher as he attempted to pass him and leave the classroom. The teacher said he has witnessed the boy doing damage to a table in the classroom.

•Someone reportedly tried to disrupt church services at Freedom Church of God by standing outside and putting his hands on the church windows during a service. One of the church members went outside to investigate, but the perpetrator was gone. The church has a suspect in mind who they have had problems with in the past.

•A 16-year old student at the high school was arrested last week and charged with felony theft by taking, disrupting public school and obstruction of a law enforcement officer after he cursed at the school resource officer and caused a door to slam into his elbow. The incident began when officer Mark Jerome called the boy into his office to confront him about a school bus tape that showed him taking an iPod from another student. The boy laid the iPod on Jerome’s desk and said it belonged to someone else. Jerome told the boy to bring the person it belonged to back to him and the boy then stormed out of his office shouting obscenities. As Jerome was escorting him to the principal’s office, the boy forcibly struck doors to the 200 wing and they came back and hit Jerome in the elbow. He was handcuffed and taken to jail.

•Battery was reported on Broad River Road last week after a man reported that his mother was pushed off the porch and injured by his girlfriend. He said his mother and another woman had come to the residence and told her to leave the property and she started hitting his mother. She had left the residence before officers arrived. The mother was taken to ARMC for treatment. All parties were explained the warrant process.

•A woman allegedly stole two packs of cigarettes from Ingles last week.

•A woman in Spratlin Pointe Place reported that a purse had been stolen from the glove compartment of her car. She had received notification that her Visa had been used fraudulently at Kroger and an Exxon gas station in Athens.

•A woman on Hardman Road reported that her boyfriend and father of her small child head butted her three times and then struck her on her left temple during an argument. The boyfriend left the scene when he learned she was calling 9-1-1. Warrants have been issued for his arrest.