A Rhode Island woman has been charged with assault after she threw a
rock, waved a baseball bat and urged her dogs to attack a news crew
reporting on a kindergarten graduation party shooting.
WLNE-TV
reports that its cameraman and reporter were trying to speak with
Melissa Lawrence, the mother of a victim, Tuesday after a teenage boy
turned himself in to police.
Video shows Lawrence throwing a rock
at them, wielding a bat, screaming "Get away from me," and directing
her two pit bulls to attack. The dogs then bite reporter Abbey Niezgoda
(niz-GOH'-dah) on her forearm. WLNE says Niezgoda received a tetanus shot.
The
Providence Journal reports Lawrence was released on personal
recognizance Wednesday after not guilty pleas were entered on her
behalf.
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