The stepdaughter of former Gov. David Paterson was arrested Saturday night, charged with felony assault after hitting her boyfriend over the head with a bottle during a fight in his West Village apartment.
Ashley Dennis, 23, and Brian McGuinness, 30, engaged in a violent fight in the apartment at 122 MacDougal St. at around 4:45 a.m., with Dennis breaking a bottle over his head, knocking him to the floor, and then repeatedly slamming his leg in the door until he lost consciousness, the Daily News reports.
McGuinness received three stitches at Beth Israel Medical Center.
The superintendent at the West Village building told the Daily News she thought the somebody has been stabbed.
"There was blood on the floor, on the door handle, all over the hallway," Pearl DiGeronimo, 60, said. "I thought it was a murder."
A neighbor also told the paper she woke to the sound of smashing glass, and then heard McGuinness saying "Help me, help," then "Fire, fire." It was at that point the neighbor, who only gave her name as Marie C., knew it was serious.
"He wasn't moving," she said. "He had two shoes on top of him like she kicked him out of the apartment and threw the shoes."
McGuinness was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, a misdemeanor under the state's anti-choking law, the News reported. Dennis was charged with felony assault.
Police walked Dennis out of the 6th Precinct stationhouse several hours after her arrest, the News said.
Dennis was arraigned Saturday night and released on her own recognizance and ordered to stay away from McGuinness. She's due back in court Dec. 20.
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