Two sisters were arrested Saturday night after they hit their neighbor with a baseball bat and cut her with a knife, Detective Tom O’Sullivan of the Boone County Sheriff’s Department said.
O’Sullivan said deputies responded to a disturbance at about 10:15 p.m. on Saturday in the 4300 block of Santa Barbara Drive.
“When our officers got there, we located two adult females with injuries,” O’Sullivan said. “One female was transported to the hospital, and the injuries were not life threatening.”
Sharita Graham, 29, and Terri Graham, 31, used a baseball bat and knife to injure the victim during a dispute, O’Sullivan said. Antorrie M. Cowans, 21, allegedly shot a handgun into the air.
The victim was a 32-year-old female who lived across the street from the Graham sisters. O’Sullivan said the suspects confronted the victim in front of her home on Santa Barbara Drive.
“It was basically a disagreement or some bad blood between the victim and the suspects,” O’Sullivan said.
Investigators conducted an investigation and spoke with neighbors who witnessed the fight. Sharita and Cowans were arrested the following day.
Sharita Graham was arrested for unlawful use of a weapon, second-degree assault and armed criminal action, and Cowans was arrested for unlawful use of a weapon. Terri Graham was issued a summons for third degree assault.
Cowans was released on a $4,500 bond at 5:24 a.m. on April 25. Sharita Graham was released on a $10,000 bond later that night.
“Whatever the dispute was, it was nothing that warranted breaking out knives and baseball bats,” O’Sullivan said. “We all have disputes with people but we don’t resort to that type of violence.”
O’Sullivan said most of the disturbances he deals with are verbal in nature.
“We have seen recently more incidents of people injecting firearms into a disturbance,” he said. “This is obviously a serious incident.”