People were injured Tuesday during two separate aggravated assaults reported to Orange police. In one, a 68-year-old woman was hit in the face at her house. Her 20-year-old grandson was stabbed in the arm and hit in the head with a coffee mug when he tried to stop the attack. A relative was arrested.
In the second one, a 21-year-old woman was pushed from a moving car on 16th Street. Police report she went to the hospital to be treated for a possible broken arm.
The first assault was reported at 11:48 a.m. at a house in the 3600 block of Kenwood Street in the Ridgemont subdivision. According to Officer I. Henry, the woman was in her kitchen fixing soup and preparing to wash dishes. She was arguing with her grown son to move out of the house with his family.
The son hit the woman in the face. The 20-year-old grandson, the son of the attacker, stepped between them to stop the attack. Officer Henry said the man hit the 20-year-old in the forehead with the mug and the handle broke off.
The man also stabbed the 20-year-old in the arm with a small knife. Officer Henry said when he arrived, the young man had blood on his forehead and his right arm was bleeding. The young man was taken by ambulance to Baptist Hospital Orange for treatment.
47-year-old James Gibbs III was arrested and faces charges of injury to the elderly and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Both are felonies.
The assault involving a woman pushed from a car was reported at 9 p.m. The woman told police she was a passenger in a vehicle traveling northbound on 16th Street. The man driving pushed her out in the 1300 block of 16th when the car was going 30 to 40 miles per hour.
She walked to a relative’s house on Burton Avenue about four blocks away. Police said she could not move her left arm and had abrasions across her left side and back. A relative drove her to the emergency room for treatment. No arrest was made.
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