Crime & Safety

Hoover High Teen Who Threatened Family Members With Steak Knife to Enter Pleas Wednesday

Ashley Rusan, 18, is charged with abduction and aggravated menacing after threatening her foster mother and the woman's adult daughter with a knife last week

A student is slated to enter pleas in Canton Municipal Court Wednesday after reportedly threatening to kill two family members with a steak knife.

Ashley Rusan, 18, is charged with abduction, a third-degree felony, and aggravated menacing, a first-degree misdemeanor. Municipal court officials said she’s expected to enter a plea at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

 responded to a call that a young woman was holding family members at knifepoint about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday in the 1100 block of Vincent Street SE. Officer Doug Cardwell said Rusan’s foster mother and the woman’s adult daughter had locked themselves in an upstairs bedroom for safety when police got to the house.

“(The mother) opened the window from the bedroom to throw the keys to get into the house,” Cardwell said.

Police walked through the house and up the steps into the hallway, where they met Rusan. She handed over the steak knife when asked, Cardwell said.

He said the fight escalated from a disagreement between Rusan and her foster mother’s daughter, who said Rusan was disrespectful with her mother.

Police arrested Rusan and took her to the Stark County Jail, where she remained this afternoon on a $50,000 bond.


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