A woman is dead and a man is in custody after Geneva police, responding to a report of a man harming himself, instead found him stabbing her inside a home on Austin Road. Officers forced their way into the house after hearing screaming, and the woman later died at the hospital from her injuries.
Police were initially called to the 100 block of Austin Road for a report of a man cutting himself, according to cleveland19.com. When officers arrived, they heard noises from inside the home along with a woman screaming. They asked her to open the door, but she said she could not, telling them the man was on top of her.
Officers Forced Their Way Inside
With the woman unable to let them in, officers forced entry into the home and found the man on top of her, attacking her with a weapon that appeared to be a knife, per the same account. They ordered him at gunpoint to drop the weapon, and he complied before being taken into custody.
Both the man and the woman were transported to a hospital for treatment. The woman died there from her injuries, the station reported. As Cleveland.com reported, the stabbing occurred at a home in the 100 block of Austin Road, and officials have withheld the names of both the arrested man and the woman who died.
Investigation Remains Open
Geneva Police Chief John Camper provided the account of the incident in a press release, according to cleveland19.com. Officials said the circumstances surrounding what led to the attack remain under investigation, and no further details about the relationship between the man and woman, or what preceded the confrontation, have been released.
