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Woman, 29, indicted in city stabbing

YOUNGSTOWN — Cielito Matos, 29, whose address is the Mahoning County jail, was indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated burglary and felonious assault in a July 26, 2024, stabbing of a man on East Dennick Avenue on the North Side.

If Matos is convicted, she could get about 20 years in prison.

According to a Youngstown police report, officers were dispatched to the Dennick address at 9:57 a.m. July 26 for a stabbing. When they arrived, officers reported they saw Matos with blood “all over her hands and was being held” by the victim.

Others were yelling “She stabbed him,” the report states. Matos was advised to place her hands behind her back, which Matos did, the report states. She was taken into custody in the back of a police cruiser. She had a bleeding laceration on her right ring finger.

Officers described the scene as “chaotic at best” with the victim having a laceration to his rib area and hand that were fresh and bleeding. There was a broken living room window of the home, plus glass and blood on the front porch and front steps.

The victim and a woman said they were sleeping in the basement of the home at 9:50 a.m. when they heard a crash coming from the living room upstairs.

One of the people went upstairs to investigate and saw Matos with a knife. She said she was “going to kill the anti-Christ,” and she began to stab the man as he and the woman came into the room, the report states. The man and woman pushed Matos out of the house and onto the porch.

One of the two people staying in the home went next door and asked the people there to call 911, the report states. Ambulance personnel arrived and took the man to the hospital.

A woman who is apparently the spouse of the stabbing victim but whose name is blacked out in the report because of Ohio’s Marsy’s Law, which protects the identities of victims, advised officers of where they could find the knife used to stab the man, the report states.

Matos also threatened the woman with that knife, the woman told police, according to the report.

A person told police that Matos had broken into their home once before, but they did not call police because Matos was a neighbor and they believed she would not do it again, the report states.

Matos told police she was pregnant, so ambulance personnel took her to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Bystanders told police Matos’ four children were home alone. Officers located the children and they were safe. Officers tried to locate their father, who arrived later and took possession of the children.

The kids’ father said the mental health of Matos, his girlfriend, had worsened in recent weeks. He advised that she is not pregnant, as a doctor gave her two pregnancy tests recently and they were negative.

Also indicted Thursday was Xiaoyan Tu, 34, of Flushing, New York, on felony promoting prostitution and misdemeanor soliciting after she was arrested March 14 during an investigation of the Sunshine Foot Spa, 445 W. Main St. in Canfield.

Others indicted Thursday are:

● Atalaya Amatul-Nafi, 37, Mahoning County jail, felonious assault and strangulation.

● David Poyssick, 42, Mahoning County jail, cocaine possession.

● Jeremiah Clark, 18, 25th Street, Massillon, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle.

● Joseph Hernandez, 59, Devit Avenue, Campbell, aggravated drug possession.

● Stephen I. Zooberg, 37, Mahoning County jail, felony theft.

● Caden J. Moffo, 20, Beechwood Drive, Boardman, failure to comply with the order of a police officer.

● Demain P. Duncan, 40, Mahoning County jail, drug possession, illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified government facility and escape.

● Ron Singh, age not provided, Ninth Street, Struthers, illegal storage, treatment, disposal of hazardous waste and misdemeanor water pollution.

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