Woman charged in stabbing of husband

The knife used in the assault was found, with blood on it, on a dresser in the bedroom.

STAFF REPORT

AUSTINTOWN — A township woman is charged with felonious assault after an argument with her husband turned violent.

Larita Moyer, 48, was taken into custody just before 2 a.m. Saturday, after her husband, Jason, asked neighbors to call the Austintown Police Department because he’d been stabbed.

The episode began in the couple’s Amberly Drive home at about 1:20 a.m.

Jason Moyer, 40, told police the pair were arguing in their bedroom, when Larita Moyer retrieved something from a dresser drawer. He said because he didn’t know what she had in her hand, he grabbed her and pushed her onto the bed.

He said their 15-year-old son then entered the room with an aluminum baseball bat and said he intended to protect his mother.

The victim told police he began wresting the bat away from his son, at which time the wife stabbed him in the right arm.

He said after struggling briefly with his wife, he fled the house with the bat, went to his neighbor’s house and asked them to dial 911.

Upon arrival, officers said the victim was standing in the street next to a taxicab.

Officers said he had a large laceration on his right forearm, one on his chest and cuts to both hands; his shirt and hands were covered in blood.

He was placed in a cruiser to await treatment from paramedics.

Officers then approached the residence and knocked several times, hearing no response.

Eventually Larita Moyer allowed officers in, where they found the bedroom in disarray. The knife used in the assault was found, with blood on it, on a dresser in the bedroom.

The couple’s son told police he heard his parents arguing, so he went into the bedroom with the bat to protect his mother.

He said he swung the bat at his father to keep him away, and that’s when his father was stabbed by his mother.

Larita Moyer told officers she stabbed her husband in self-defense and refused to give a written statement.

She was taken to the Mahoning County jail on a charge of felonious assault.

Jason Moyer was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Health Center in Youngstown for treatment.