T.J. ROYAL
A Tarboro woman faces a felony assault charge, after she told police she assaulted her boyfriend with a knife Tuesday night.
Mary Bottoms Whitehead, 62, of 313 Maryland Ave., faces one felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill or inflicting serious, after the altercation was called in to police Tuesday at 8:41 p.m.
Tarboro Patrolman Jeremy Guzman said that he, Cpl. Rickie Dozier and Sgt. Keith Morris all responded to the scene. Whitehead was still on the phone with a dispatcher when police arrived.
The victim, Whitehead's boyfriend, had several cuts to his face and throat area, and was holding a bloody t-shirt when police arrived, Guzman said.
During their visit to the Maryland Avenue residence, Whitehead said "numerous times" that she had cut the victim, the patrolman added.
Even when police took her to the magistrate's office and the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office, Guzman said that she still referred to the incident, that she had cut her boyfriend and intended to kill him.
Once police arrived with Whitehead to the sheriff's office on Anaconda Road, Guzman said that officers even had to force the woman to sit in her chair, and police said they would force her to if they had to. She responded to them "you can try," and then they placed her back in her chair, Guzman said.
The patrolman added that she said several epithets about the incident at the sheriff's office, saying again that she had intended to kill her boyfriend.
She was placed in the Edgecombe County Detention Center.
