Bicycle thefts lead to reported stabbing in Warren: Report

WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) — A mystery is unfolding in Warren involving several stolen bicycles in a neighborhood, a possible stabbing victim and a group of juveniles and adults.

Police were called Sept. 30 to the 1600 block of Larchmont Avenue on multiple reports of a large fight. An 8-year-old caller said that someone pulled a knife on his mother. When officers got there, they didn’t see anyone but a witness said the group left in two separate cars just before police arrived.

Officers were then called to a house in the 1600 block of Elm Road where a woman said that her grandchildren had just been involved in a fight on Larchmont Avenue. A juvenile there said he was on his way to his home on Sheridan Avenue when he saw a group harassing two people he knew near the roadway on Larchmont. Two vehicles were there — a white pickup truck and a black SUV.

The juvenile said when he rode his bike up to the group, they accused him of stealing a different bicycle and that multiple adults got out of one of the vehicles and an adult female began punching him in the face. Reports said the juvenile punched her back before stabbing her.

The juvenile said he had a knife in his hand and when the woman punched him, he stabbed her in the stomach out of reflex and dropped the knife, the report stated.

Witnesses said the stabbing victim was taken to Trumbull Regional Medical Center, but police checked and she wasn’t there.

Police tracked down a witness who drove the stabbing victim from the scene and she explained that there had been a series of bicycle thefts in the neighborhood and that the perpetrator was a “white male, tall, who is often seen wearing a red ski mask” and that the juvenile who stabbed the woman was believed to be an accomplice to the bicycle thief. The witness said the other juveniles on Larchmont had knives, too, the report stated.

The witness said the stabbing victim was bleeding “heavily” from the wounds in her stomach but got out of the vehicle near Woodland Street and Laird Avenue and walked away in her bare feet, the report stated.

Inside the witness’ black Yukon, officers found blood on the passenger seat, floorboard and center console. No one at the witness’s house or anyone else knew where the victim was, the report stated.

Police requested a ping on the victim’s phone in an attempt to find her but were unsuccessful.

No arrests were listed in the report, and at the time of the report on Sept. 30, the victim had not been located.

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