Chestwood Road Diary

On 13 August 2016 at 11:11p.m. Patrolman Parker and I were dispatched to 2224 Chestwood Road. The call was in reference to a physical altercation between a man and a woman. The two were later identified as Demetrius Givens and Kelia Richardson.

We were met at the residence by Blanche Gooden, Givens' mother, who showed us to the guest house located in the back yard of the residence.

Patrolman Parker made an initial contact with both parties inside the guest house. He then escorted Givens to outside the residence, where I was located, and spoke with Richardson. While Parker was inside the residence, Givens told me that he and his girlfriend had a verbal altercation and that no physical contact had taken place by either party. Gooden exited her residence through the back door. Givens immediately became agitated and told her that she needed to go inside. Gooden told him that he should not have hit her (Richardson) and kicked her the way that he had.

Patrolman Parker exited
Givens said that a man had called his phone and asked to speak with her. She told him that she did not believe him, stating that if someone wanted to speak with her they would have called her phone. Givens then hit her with an oscillating fan, breaking the fan in the process. Richardson got out of bed and the assault continued. Givens through a pot of hot water at Richardson as she ran into the kitchen/livingroom area of the guest house. Givens grabbed Richardson around the neck, choking her, and threw her into an entertainment center causing the television set to fall out of it. This caused the housing of the television to break. Givens told Richardson that she would have to pay for the television. During the struggle Givens took a cast iron skillet from the stove and struck Richardson on the side of the head. The handle broke on the skillet from the