On March 29th, Metro Nashville Police found D’Ante Leo Johnson leaning out of his car, covered in blood in North Nashville. His girlfriend, 23-year-old Deja Nicole McClain, admitted to stabbing him in the head with a large knife after he broke up with her. She also stole his social security card “so he would have to come back”. She is free on a $10,000 bond.
20-year-old Luke Bain is charged with felony aggravated assault with serious bodily injury after his brother sustained three stab wounds and a broken jaw. Luke Bain told police his brother ran into his knife when he was telling him to leave his apartment.
20-year-old Keleshia Massey was charged with assault of an officer, domestic assault, vandalism, resisting arrest, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after wrestling with her ex-boyfriend and stabbing his current girlfriend.
45-year-old Ricky Buford was charged with attempted criminal homicide after he stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend, Willie Alred, multiple times in the arm, head, and lung.
24-year-old Destiny Gurley was charged with assault, resisting, evading arrest, vandalism, and burglary after a woman said she beat her, tied her up, drove her across town, and stabbed her when she tried to escape.
32-year-old Kelcey Jamar Walker was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he stabbed his girlfriend in front of her children and then fled the scene.
50-year-old Angela Cartwright was charged with aggravated assault after she stabbed her boyfriend for no apparent reason while they were drinking in a shed. Her boyfriend told police that she is bipolar.
40-year-old Melissa Smith was charged with aggravated assault involving serious bodily injury when a lovers spat at a Madison bodega escalated to the point where she stabbed her boyfriend in the chest.
53-year-old Joyce Bean was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an argument ensued between her and her boyfriend during which she told him “get out of my house and I want my teeth back.” She then began attacking him and ended up stabbing him multiple times but not before her daughter was able to jump in and get some licks in of her own.
In yet another extreme case of domestic violence this week, Maria Flor Salvador, 41, was stabbed this morning at her Wildgrove Drive residence. She is in critical condition at VUMC. Detectives have been unable to interview her due to the severity of her injuries. Her husband, Eric Lopez, 53, is believed to be responsible and is also hospitalized as a result of self-inflicted stab wounds to his abdomen.
