A Clinton Township woman is accused of stabbing her ex-boyfriend, then getting involved in a multivehicle crash a few miles away on Hall Road.
Laquinn Smith, 24, had an interim arraignment Dec. 13 on assault with intent to murder, a felony, and aggravated domestic violence, a misdemeanor, by a magistrate in the Macomb County Jail. She was ordered held on a $250,000 bond, according to a Dec. 16 release from the county prosecutor’s office.
Smith was being held in the county jail on Dec. 16. Online jail records say she is to get a GPS tether prior to release as an interim bond condition. The prosecutor’s office said Smith is to be arraigned before a district court judge at a future date. No case file, thus no attorney, was listed yet for Smith in 41B District Court in Clinton Township online records.
The prosecutor’s office said Smith and her ex-boyfriend, who lived together in Clinton Township, argued Dec. 11, and Smith stabbed him twice. Smith then fled in his sport utility vehicle and was involved in a multivehicle crash on Hall Road near Romeo Plank Road.
Clinton Township police previously said seven vehicles were involved in the crash. The prosecutor’s office said the accident remains under investigation.
“Violence will not cure your problems — it only multiplies them,” County Prosecutor Peter Lucido said in his office’s release.
Township police responded to a domestic violence call about 7:40 p.m. Dec. 11 in the 17000 block of Kingsbrooke Circle at the Garfield Commons apartment complex, which is south of Hall Road and east of Garfield Road.
A woman reportedly assaulted a man, 24, who had numerous cuts and other injuries to his neck and upper torso, police said. Township firefighters took him to a hospital, where he was in stable condition Dec. 12.After the assault, the woman fled in a black Chevrolet Trax. About eight minutes after the 911 call for the domestic violence incident, police said the county’s communications center in Mount Clemens began receiving numerous 911 calls about a multivehicle crash on eastbound Hall, west of Romeo Plank, which is about 3 miles from the apartment complex.
An initial assessment found that the black Chevrolet Trax was traveling eastbound on Hall and hit seven vehicles, coming to rest on top of one of them, police said. They did not provide additional details about the crash, including whether anyone was hurt.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Macomb woman accused of stabbing ex-boyfriend, causing multivehicle crash
Reporting by Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press / Detroit Free Press
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