‘I had to defend myself, dude’: Instead of showering together, woman allegedly stuns man with bat and breaks off blade in his body in unprovoked attack

Indiana cops arrived Sunday evening at an apartment where music was blaring, where a man was beaten in a bathroom with a baseball bat and repeatedly stabbed, and where a 25-year-old woman was covered in blood and lying on a couch before she claimed “I had to defend myself, dude,” according to court documents.

The story from the Bloomington Police Department so far is that the evidence indicates Briley Shayne Turner over the weekend grabbed a kitchen knife, a “black-handled tire plug tool with a metal spike on it,” and a baseball bat when the victim thought the two were going to take a shower together at the Kinser Flats apartment.

When authorities arrived on scene, evidence of blood-covered weapons was found in the living room, the bathroom, and the kitchen, with the bat left leaning against a wall.

“During officers initial observations of the bathroom, it was determined that there was a bloody plastic handle to a kitchen knife with the metal knife portion missing near the bathtub. Additionally, there was a bloody black-handled tire plug tool with a metal spike on it located on the floor nearest to the sink,” court documents obtained by Law&Crime said. “Lastly, in the main living room of the apartment, to the right of the main door, was a bloody baseball bat leaning against the wall.”

When cops walked in the door, they claimed to hear the victim and Turner yelling “help,” adding that the suspect was lounging on a living room couch “next to her phone, covered in blood,” as the victim lay “on the bathroom floor with multiple stab wounds” to his chest, rib cage, neck, quad, and “upper right buttock,” with part of the knife “broken off inside of [his] body.” He also had a broken arm, documents said.

According to the victim’s account of what happened, the initial unprovoked baseball bat attack unfolded in the bathroom as he and the defendant “were about to take a shower together.”

“After being struck with the baseball bat, [the victim] advised Briley began stabbing him all over his body,” the affidavit said. “[He] stated he tried to grab the knife as Briley was stabbing him in an attempt to stop the incident but only sustained a cut to his hands. [He] stated that there was no argument or reason for the attack.”

Turner’s alleged explanation was markedly different: self-defense. At the scene, cops said, that while the defendant had “numerous bruises covering her legs and on her sides,” these “appeared to be older due to the multiple colors of purple and yellow” and that there were “[n]o new injuries appeared to be observed” from the day of the attack.

Turner was described as acting erratically, at times hyperventilating, and “repeatedly ma[king] jerking motions with her extremities and loud moaning and whimpering noises” when investigators tried to ask her questions.

At the scene, Turner had allegedly claimed the man “tried to get me.”

“He f—ing tried … he f—ing held me down, and he tried to put that stuff down my throat,” she allegedly said. “I don’t know what he put in my throat, and I had to defend myself, dude. I tried to defend myself.”

The aggravated battery and attempted murder case is not Turner’s first run-in with the law in Indiana, but it is the most serious.

Court records reviewed by Law&Crime show Turner faces a pending burglary of a dwelling case that stems from an Aug. 6 incident and that she faced several drug possession cases in recent years.

The docket in the stabbing case says Turner has been ordered not to contact the victim and is set to have a pretrial conference on the morning of Oct. 7, her birthday.

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