Woman accused of smacking teenage son in head with a baseball bat, NC cops say

A family confrontation turned potentially dangerous when a woman hit her son with a baseball bat and left him bleeding from the head, according to investigators in North Carolina.

The incident happened Sunday, Nov. 30, at a home on Robert Drive in Greenville, and ended with 45-year-old Shea Roshawn Bridges charged with felony assault, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported in an arrest warrant.

Details of what started the dispute were not released.

Court records report Bridges swung the bat at Dominick Hemby and landed a head blow that caused “significant bleeding.” Hemby is Bridge’s 19-year-old son, and he suffered “a major injury,” the Daily Reflector reports.

He was taken to a hospital and details of his condition have not been released.

The incident occurred at Bridge’s home, just northeast of Greenville, officials say.

Bridges was arrested the same day and charged with misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon, and felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, according to jail records.

At the time of the incident, Bridges was out of jail on pre-trial release in connection with a November breaking and entering that included accusations of larceny, officials say. Bond was set at $770,000.

Greenville is about an 80-mile drive southeast from downtown Raleigh.

This story was originally published December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM with the headline "Woman accused of smacking teenage son in head with a baseball bat, NC cops say."