Fort Mill woman arrested for assault after throwing chair, snatching cell phone

A woman is facing assault charges after a sheriff’s office report says she began throwing furniture at a home on Fair Oaks Drive, at one point narrowly avoiding hitting a baby.

A York County sheriff’s deputy was called to the home around 2 p.m. Thursday, after the 21-year-old woman’s foster mother told police she became angry and started throwing chairs around the home’s kitchen. The foster mother told the deputy one chair almost hit the woman’s infant child after it was thrown, according to a sheriff’s office report.

When the woman took out her cell phone to film her foster daughter’s outburst, the woman physically “wrestled” the phone out of her hands and then threw it off the second floor balcony. The younger woman then locked herself in her bedroom and was heard to say she was “about to snap.”

The deputy spoke to the young woman, who reportedly told the deputy a similar sequence of events, although she denied wrestling with her foster mother over the phone. While the victim did not have any visible injuries at the time, the younger woman was arrested for third-degree assault and battery and transported to the Fort Mill police department.

This story was originally published October 20, 2015 at 6:53 AM with the headline "Fort Mill woman arrested for assault after throwing chair, snatching cell phone."