Throat cut over crying baby

An officer of the Commerce Police Department interviewed the black male victim. He told police he was in bed at a Park Street address, when his girlfriend, a 34-year-old white female, came in yelling that she was tired of their baby crying all the time and that she could not take it any more, according to the report.

The man said when he began to get out of bed that the woman hit him in the face with her fist. He got the baby to try to calm it, he told police, but the woman began hitting him. He put the child down, pushed his girlfriend away and she “hit him on the head” at which time he noticed he was bleeding.

The woman had a different version. She told police that when she awakened the man, he started hitting her in the face. The officer could find no marks on her to support that allegation.

The woman said she asked the man if he was trying to kill her and, if so, she would do it herself, at which time she picked up a box cutter. When she acted as if she was going to cut herself, she said, he came towards her as if to hit her. She “threw up her arms in front of her face” to protect herself, which is when the man’s neck was cut, she told police.

No charges were filed.