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WARREN -- Police are investigating a stabbing early Friday at an apartment complex on Tod Avenue NW.
Officers were called about 4 a.m. to the complex after Trumbull County 911 dispatchers said a man was near the third-floor elevator bleeding from his chest and hands.
Police followed the blood trail from that area to room 305 where the door was open and the report states officers could see blood splatter on the inside of a storm door. A man was inside the apartment trying to mop up blood droplets on the floor and told police the victim, identified as James Earnest, 51, of 446 Third St. SW, had left with his girlfriend.
Officers first found the girlfriend, who had blood on her arm and face, and then found Earnest in Room 406 with cuts on his chest and hand. Paramedics arrived to tend to the victim, transporting him to St. Joseph Warren Hospital for treatment.
The girlfriend, identified as Erika Carper, was arrested on a charge of felonious assault after being questioned by detectives, the report states. She told detectives she wasn't going to say anything, the report states.
Municipal Court records show Carper, 45, of 250 Tod Ave. NW Apt. 3110, was arraigned via video hookup from the Trumbull County jail Friday morning before Judge Thomas Gysegem, who set a $2,500 bond and ordered she have no contact with Earnest. Carper, who was released from the jail around 6:30 p.m. Friday, is scheduled to appear 10:15 a.m. April 22 before Gysegem for a preliminary hearing.