LISA HOBBS - News Editor
The Warren County Grand Jury handed down a formal indictment in the case of a woman charged with aggravated domestic assault.
Amy Washer was arrested on Sept. 25 by McMinnville Police Detective Chris McCormick, who stated that Richard Thomas alleged that he had been stabbed by Washer in his Westbrook Lane home during a verbal altercation that turned violent.
Washer left the scene, but she was located a short time later by officers on Sunset Drive and taken into custody.
McCormick stated that she confessed to the stabbing but added that it was in self-defense.
“She stated that they got into a verbal altercation, because he thought she made a mess in the kitchen. He was yelling at her to clean it up and that’s what led to the stabbing. She did say it was self-defense, but she didn’t have any marks at all. Not even a little redness.”
McCormick says other occupants of the home were interviewed, and they allegedly stated that they heard a verbal dispute, but nothing that sounded like a physical altercation, and heard Thomas state, “Are you going to stab me?”
Indictment by the grand jury, a true bill, is a formal determination that the evidence presented by prosecutors is sufficient to prove probable cause and marks the official start of criminal prosecution.
A true bill does not determine guilt. Washer remains innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.