Green bean triggers shoe attack, man says

A man says he was awakened by his girlfriend beating him repeatedly on the head with her shoe, only to start stomping his groin once he had disarmed her.

Meanwhile the woman says she was kept up all night by her boyfriend and his partying friends when she had to work the next day and that he was actually the aggressor.

‘Just keep your stuff at home,’ General Sessions Judge Larry Ross advised defendant Martisha McClure and her former boyfriend, Tony Chatman, in dismissing assault charges against the woman.

It was Chatman who took a warrant against his new roommate, claiming she attacked him with her shoe because she claimed he had dropped a green bean onto it the night before. The pair, while dating for about three years, had been living together for only a week when the incident took place.

Chatman said he was fast asleep when the assault began as he felt his girlfriend’s shoe landing on the side of his head. The assault, he said, left bumps. Chatman said he was able to wrestle the shoe away from her, but that she then stomped his groin several times before ending the attack.

However, McClure painted a different picture, noting it was she who called police the night in the question because she wanted him to leave their home.

‘He and his friends kept me up and I had to work,’ McClure testified. ‘The living room was trashed.’

McClure said the two had words and that he had knocked her onto the couch, admitting she did kick him, but in self defense to keep him off of her.

Ross said there was not enough evidence to determine who attacked who, suggesting the couple keep away from one another or try to get along better in the future.