Why did you have a meat cleaver in your hand now? Why'd you do that, man? Cuz I was mad. On November 9th, 2022, officers responded to an apartment over a report of a man chasing down his stepdaughter in the hall with a meat cleaver. Oh, I meat cleaver. The offic come on in. What's going on? What y'all got going on? Yeah, her her uh daughter always start problem here trying to goddamn me and my make me and my wife. See, I bought her daughter from our house. D I'm a problem starter. Okay. And uh she always come in people be let her in our house. She want to start me and my I'm looking for my earring. My earring cost a lot of money. Somebody stole my earrings. All right. All right. Hey, let's let's just take a breath really quick. Okay. Where's this meat cleaver that was supposedly involved in all this? I mean, don't go grab it. Right there. Don't go grab it. I'm just asking where nobody want me. This where I live. Hey, I I don't care if this is where you live, man. We're trying to figure out what's going on. All right. Ain't nothing going on. All right. Well, we got that her daughter out there. Calm down. Calm down. My daughter out there. Calm down. Calm down. Okay. Calm down. So we can figure out what's going on. I need you to stop raising your voice so I can actually understand you. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Me and my wife altercation. Okay. Okay. I need to know more about the altercation though. Ain't nobody hit nobody. Okay. That's not what I'm hearing. We just look for earring. Her daughter came here and don't supposed to be here. Listen, I'm I'm not hearing that nobody didn't hit anybody. Okay. From the other side out there, I'm hearing that there was some physical stuff that happened in here. I'm trying to get your side of it. Okay. Yeah. I throw that base down, man. Because somebody came in here and stole my earring. I ain't hit nobody with I throw the base down. My wife cut. Where's the vase? It It ain't no vase. It's a trash can. I don't know where it's at now. Did it break? Yeah. Uh-huh. All right. Now, why'd you do that, man? Cuz I was mad. Cuz somebody don't came in here and stole my earring while I was sleeping. Okay. So, you think that somebody stole your earrings? She threw the vase. My daughter stole my earring. Why do you think that? Why do you think that she stole the earring? Cuz every time she come over here, when she leave, all my stuff stolen. Okay. And her daughter come over here just to start make make everything escalate. Okay. How did how did she end up with a little cut on her hand? So, I was at my aunt house and I was my mom and she said that he had been like nitpicking all day, every day. So, hold on, hold on, hold on. Every day I get off work. Hold on. Um, so while we on the phone talking, she telling me what's going on. He started calling, accusing her of stealing one earring. And he, so she kept telling him like, "I haven't seen your earring. I've been at work and since I've been off, I haven't seen nothing." How did the cut get there? Because she cut herself. I didn't cut nobody. I ain't cut. She ain't hit me. I ain't hit her. She probably cut herself when she was helping me pick up that base. Okay, that that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. So, well, listen, listen, listen. What I'm going to ask you to do is you're just going to hang out in here with Officer Vella. I'm going to go outside. We're going to figure out what's going on. And then it went So, I'm on the phone the whole time. And I'm telling her, just stay on the phone with me. So, then I hear glass break. And she said, "You just hit me with a face." So, is that blood on your hand there? Yeah. I don't know where it came from. I think it came from your It looks like it might have came from your wrist. It's kind of It looks like it's a little bit there. So, did did that happen when he threw the vase at you? Okay. So, so did he throw it at you? Did he throw it at the ground? Where did he th me? Okay. And then it actually hit you cuz I didn't go bleeding cuz I seen blood on my hand. Now, what happened with the door on the foot? What's going on with that? So, I was on the phone with dispatch and she was telling me to make You got a little bit of blood off from your door. Okay. So, when I knocked on the door, she was come she put her shoes on and she come back out. So I told her, I said, "Well, get your phone in case we need, you know, you need your phone or whatever." So in the meantime, he comes to the door. I had my foot like this so I can see her and he came and he just slammed the door and my foot was literally stuck up under the door. Okay. And are you're her daughter, is that correct? And is that that's her husband? Okay. Okay. So you have no relation to him other than just that's your mom. Cool. Okay. All right. So, nobody needs an ambulance, though. I know you got blood on you. What about your foot? I'm good. Okay. My thing was I wanted somebody to be here because I'm on probation, so I can't afford to get in trouble. And the way he came at me with that meat cleaver. We had even got all all the way up the hallway yet. He met us down the hall with the meat cleaver. I missed a big part of the meat cleaver story. Can we start over with that? He went in the kitchen. Okay. So she came to meet me at let me tell he he uh told me he said don't let that little you know you can't tell me don't let my daughter in cuz I bring her too. Mhm. He said well she ain't. So um I went I went out the door go let her in. Mhm. And I let her in and then he came out the door first. He went and got the meat cleaner. He let her come on in a little come in. Had a meat cleaner. I said you ain't going to cut my dog down meat cleaner. That's why I had that thing right there cuz he would come at her with the meat cleaner. He met us down that hallway with meat cleaner. So he came all the way down the hallway with the meat clipper. What was he saying when he had it in his hand? He was like, "You're not welcome." And I'm like, "Go ahead on, Eddie." He was like, "You little if you come up here, I'm going you up." I'm like, "Eddie, you don't want these problems." So he So did he raise it above his head? He didn't go all the way up his head, but but he had it like about here, say. Okay. And then he cuz when he first came, he was like this. Mhm. And then when he did like that, and I'm like, "Okay, you don't want these problems." And I and like I told the dispatch, please tell your officer, "Come on because if he come back to this door and come at me again, um my temper is like really wearing out." Okay. All right. All right. So and and then y'all separated and came out here and waited for us. Obviously came and open the door. Appreciate it. Don't let her stay inside. We know you ain't. Okay. Jeez. digging this everyday thing to me. When I get off work, you find something to pick at me about. What happened down the hallway? And why did you have a meat cleaver in your hand down the hallway? Meat cleaver. I was going I need her to let her know don't come to my apartment, man. What did you have in your hand at that time? Nothing. I ain't have nothing in my hand. What I'mma have? What? Why I'mma fight somebody? You can look at my record. I ain't been to jail so many years, man. I'm just protecting my home. They see her her kid mad cuz they can't come here and live. Listen, threats every day, but we don't pay it no mind. But when you start getting physical Yeah, I understand that. And and you know, my thing is I I try not to get in that business. But if she wants to talk to me, tell me what's going on, I'm going to listen up and give my opinion. And he don't like that. And he said, "Oh, yeah. I take up for her whether she's right or wrong." No, I don't take nobody's side. You know what I'm saying? If you wrong, you wrong. right to right and then it goes from that to him want to call people out their names and stuff but today was the last day he can ever say anything to me I'm not yelling at you when me and my wife have a problem okay so why did you meet them all the way down the hallway then I meet him down the hallway you did not go anywhere out of out of this apartment I went uh toward my apartment okay all right so why did you meet him out here then if not down the hallway you met him out here Why? Just to tell her that don't come inside my apartment. So if you didn't have anything in your hands, why did she have that club in her hands? Why did she feel the need to have that club in her hand if you didn't have anything in your hands? That my wife had that club in her hand. My wife beat me all the time. Okay, that ain't nothing new. Okay, she beat me all the time. Okay, so when when your wife was exiting the door and her daughter's already outside and you pulled your wife back in, my wife? No, my wife came in. My wife came in. I said, "Don't bring your daughter in my house." She said, "Okay, give me a cigarette." I gave her She came in and got a cigarette. Okay. Her daughter came here to make thing worse than it is. That's all that is. Yeah. I throw that base down. I ain't throw it at nobody, but I throw it mad. I paid a lot of money for that, man. All right. What's your first name again? Uh, Evie. And what's your last name, Ed? All right, Mr. Go ahead and put your hands behind your back for me. Okay, just go ahead and put your hands behind your back for me. Okay. All right. I'll explain everything to you in just a minute, Mr. Eddie. Okay. Well, I want my house locked up. Well, no, that's not going to happen cuz your wife lives here. So, we're not going to keep her from being able to come inside. Okay. I'm just trying not to pinch you. There you go. What you charging me with? Well, we're still working through that, but right now, we got enough probable cause to go ahead and place you under arrest. Okay. my own house. That's correct. Don't matter if you're at your own house or down the street or whatever. I told you, man. You can't be breaking that vase. I just fold the vase down, man. So, we're going to go ahead and come out to my car and keep talking. Okay. We're not going to say nothing to the wife or the daughter on the way out. I'll get my sugar. 5 4 5 6. We're going to go out and go to the left. Okay. Don't go in my house. Don't go. My daughter, I'm tired of talking with you. Just stay out here for just a second. You're going to rob my house, man. Well, your wife still lives there, so we're not going to tell her she can't go in there cuz it's still her house. All right. See this second car right here? Yes. All right. We're just going to stand in front of that for just a sec. Just stand right here for me. You got anything in your pockets I need to know about? Awesome. Awesome. Ox, is that prescribed to you? Yes. Obviously. Are y'all like legally married or y'all Okay. So, between y'all legally being legally married and obviously living in the same place and everything like that. Okay. I just don't have them in the bar. Oh, were they just in your pocket? Yeah. Okay. Well, we can't be doing that. Just don't I do that because I don't people been robbing me out of my pain medicine plea. We don't have a choice but to take in a deal whether you wanted us to or not. No, I I don't maybe need to cool off. Well, it it just that's state law says that we're required to. It's it's it's part of the domestic violence statute and everything like that. Just like I I go to work in one time. I call him every day. Mhm. At 2:30 for Mac on he going to find something. Does he work? No. No. I I'm just But I'm just I get social security check too. But I I've been But you still go up and go to work and all that kind of stuff. I just I just was I just was curious if he did anything work. I know that you said something about he'd been drinking since like 7:00 this morning. So, I assumed he didn't have a job, but I wanted to ask the question just to verify. I would love to pick that up for you in just a second, but you can't be having pills just in your pocket. You're telling me they're prescribed to you, but there's like nine pills just chilling in your pocket. There ain't no nine pills. Assault and uh criminal damage. Yeah, criminal dam. I can destroy my own stuff if I want to. Not if it's not if it's to intimidate her. Pain medicine. Get in the car, please. Where's it at? I'm going to try to pick them all up, but you just fell in the grass. Well, go ahead and scoot back for me. Scoot your body back and you can put your back on that back. When I when I get home, my house going to be robbed, man. And we'll deal with that if that happens. So, what you charging me with? Well, I'll get to that. Just go ahead and scoot in so I can close the door so I can find all these pain pills that you're prescribed. Are you wanting to pursue charges against him? I he needs some help. Like, no, he he needs to cool off. He need to go back to advantage. Just stop. So, so you're not wanting to pursue charges for the meat cleaver down the hallway at all? As long as he touched me, he could. Okay. And he was going to advantage and he he just he was doing good with him taking no shot. The rest of the dog corn shot and the pill. Okay. And one he just stopped going and then it went like he just flipped when he was coming down the hallway. Was he coming at you or just her with the meat cleaver? So just her. Okay. So all he's me grab me while I go outside. Come out that door and go let my door. You better let her come in here. I said, "You don't tell me my daughter can come in here." So, what he's going to be charged with today then is the damage to the property and just simple battery on you for grabbing on you and pulling you back into the apartment. Okay? So, he's not receiving any felonies today. Um, if you do change your mind, decide you need EMS, that's perfectly fine. Um, I don't know how deep that cut is. Um, but if y'all have any questions, the case number is in there, so y'all just give us a call uh and we can come back out. But, Okay. Well, you have a problem that he Okay. Well, y'all need anything else from us right now? No, sir. I appreciate it. Okay. All right. Well, I hope y'all have a better night. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Dude, I was so upset about my food. I literally had already paid for it. Where was that? Where did you get food at? Chick-fil-A. Do you want me to go get it for you? I mean, you can go over there and see if they'll give it to you. I was doing like the curbside pickup. It was under my name. Okay. Yeah, I'll go over there. I was sitting in lot number two. Okay. I'll go over there real quick if that matters. Hey, my boy was over here trying to get some dinner. Hey, my boy was over here and then somebody been running crazy with a meat cleaner. I don't know what's going on. Stop it. All right, I'll go get you. I appreciate you. All right, sir. So, while we're doing this, I'm going to explain something to you. You're only being charged with simple battery and the damage to property. Okay. You're not getting any felonies today based on the testimony that received and the fact that your wife's daughter does not want to press charges against you. Okay. Yes. All right. So, you're just receiving the two misdemeanors today. I'm putting your prescribed medication in this bag and then everything else is going to go in a separate bag. My my wife never told you to hit prescribe for me. Yeah, she did. You good with him? Yep. Yeah, I ain't no bad person. The suspect was booked for simple battery family violence and criminal trespass damage to property.