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12:30 P.M. UPDATE
COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Columbus woman is in custody for battery with a deadly weapon after an altercation in the Target parking lot, according to the Columbus Police Department.
At about 8:56 a.m., Columbus police officers were dispatched to Target, 1865 N. National Road, after it was reported that a man had gotten cut by a woman who had then gone into the store.
Officers located the 34-year-old man who had a laceration on his hand. During the course of the investigation, officers gathered that there was a verbal altercation that stemmed from a road-rage incident. The altercation turned physical when the woman cut the man on the hand with a knife.
CPD officers located and arrested Lisa Kinjo-Rothrock, 31, for the preliminary charge of battery with a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony. The victim was treated at the scene with non-life threatening injuries.
ORIGINAL STORY
COLUMBUS, Ind. — Columbus police arrested a local woman after a verbal altercation in the Target parking lot in Columbus led to a male victim being cut on the hand.
The incident was reported at 8:56 a.m. Wednesday, said Sgt. Skylar Berry, Columbus Police Department spokesman. The incident began as a road rage confrontation followed by a verbal altercation in the parking lot in which the male was injured, Berry said.
Arrested was Lisa Kinjo-Rothrock, 31, of Columbus, on a preliminary charge of battery with a deadly weapon, Berry said.
No other injuries were reported.
This story will be updated.
