(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman accused of cutting the back of a man’s head with a scalpel has been ordered to appear in court on Jan. 5 when she can seek a preliminary hearing on a felony charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Andrea Claudette Barrow, 25, was arraigned from the Payne County Jail where she remains held on $20,000 bond with an order to have no contact with her alleged victim.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Henninger wrote in an affidavit that when he saw the victim in the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room about 5:20 a.m. on Dec. 2, he had “a severe laceration to the back of his head, approximately seven inches long.”
The victim said that when he went to a friend’s house about 11 p.m. on Dec. 1 to help him set up a gaming system, “there was a girl that he knew named Andrea over there needing a ride home,” the affidavit said.
“He told me that he took her home and they went inside the camper because his back was hurting,” the affidavit said.
He said “he took off his overalls to lay down on the bed with Andrea to talk with her for a while,” the affidavit said.
He said “Andrea had hopped on top of him, then she got off of him and walked into the front of the camper,” the affidavit said. He “told me that she came back and hopped on top of him again – she leaned down towards him, as to give him a hug, put his hands behind his head, and cut the back of his head with a scalpel,” the affidavit alleged.
He said that he pushed her off of him, grabbed his belongings, left, went to his residence to get his mother, and then drove straight to the emergency room, the affidavit alleged.
Deputy Henninger and Deputy Nick Myers located Barrow’s camper in an RV park in rural Stillwater, the affidavit said.
“Once inside, I immediately noticed a red water substance in an ice tray in the sink with what appeared to be a broken scalpel blade. I also observed a red substance running down the front of the cabinet and on a trash sack,” Deputy Henninger wrote in his affidavit.
“I turned to my right, looked in the bedroom through an open door and observed what appeared to be blood on the edge of the bed.
“Andrea told me the blood was from her inner ear from an old injury,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“We explained that we knew that the blood was not from an old injury and that we knew it was from (the victim’s) head, and I asked Andea where the scalpel was.
“Andrea bent down and pulled open a drawer and pointed to a scalpel, and stated ‘that is the scalpel that I used to cut his head,’” the affidavit alleged.
She said that the man “told her cut his head, after she told him that he had a chip in his head,” the affidavit alleged.
If convicted of the attack, Barrow could be sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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