BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Clay deputies arrested a 38-year-old High Ridge Estates woman on Sunday, Jan. 9 after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the left forearm with a pair of scissors.
Ashley Amber Prosser was booked into the Clay County Jail for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
According to an arrest report, the victim told arresting officer Sean W. Church that the defendant had been drinking all day and got upset over a television show they had been watching.
“Ashley became increasingly irate and aggressive at (the victim),” Church wrote. “(The victim wanted to get away from Ashely and let her cool down.”
As the victim was gathering his cell phone and wallet, he remembered that the wallet was in Prosser’s purse. When he asked her to hand it over, she instead pulled a small pair of scissors out of the handbag and lunged at the victim.
“She started stabbing at (the victim),” Church wrote. “He yelled at her to stop and put his arms up to protect himself.”
Prosser then left the home and another deputy found her at a BP gas station at the corner of State Road 100 and County Road 214.
The lawman located a pair of scissors in the defendant’s vehicle which the victim later identified as the battery weapon.
Clay County Fire Rescue evaluated the victim’s injuries which Church wrote were consistent with his story and indicated he was in a defensive posture when he was injured.
Prosser told the deputy at the gas station that her boyfriend is epileptic and became aggressive toward her.
“When he began to ask her what she meant by ‘he became aggressive,’ she advised she did not want to answer any further questions and wished to speak with her lawyer,” Church wrote. “Due to (her) requesting a lawyer, he stopped questioning. Ashley was secured in the rear of his patrol vehicle.”
