Warrant issued for Chartiers man in alleged domestic attack
State police charged a Chartiers Township man with beating his girlfriend in front of their 2-year-old at their home over the weekend.
District Judge Gary Havelka signed an arrest warrant on Saturday charging Damon C. Bey, 31, of Griffith Avenue, with simple assault and harassment. Bey’s girlfriend spoke to police at Washington Hospital that afternoon, telling them he’d become angry around midnight when she refused to give him a ride to the uptown area of Washington.
Bey faces charges of simple assault and harassment.
Police wrote in court papers the girlfriend “related she told Damon Bey she didn’t want to give him a ride because he was going to be doing things Damon Bey should not be doing and hanging out with people he should not be hanging out with.”
Police said the couple have two children, a 2-year-old son and 11-month-old daughter. Bey’s girlfriend told police he attacked her after she gave him an ultimatum that he’d have to live somewhere else if he “was going to do those things,” according to court papers.
Bey allegedly began punching her, striking her four or five times in the head. She also told police their son yelled to “stop hitting mommy” during the attack, and she tried to shield herself with her left hand.
She told police she then put their children in the car and gave Bey a ride into the city to keep him from hurting her again, before picking up her mother and going to the hospital. Court papers said she was treated for a swollen left hand and head pain.