Crime & Safety

Police Arrest Mother Who Threatened Suicide With Kids in Home

The woman threatened to shoot and kill herself Tuesday while her two teenage children were in the home with her

A North Canton mother was arrested for inducing panic and child endangerment while her two teenage children were in the home with her Tuesday.

North Canton police arrested the 41-year-old mother on warrants for those charges today after she was released from a local hospital. Both charges are first-degree misdemeanors.

North Canton Patch will not publish the name of the woman to protect the identity of her children. North Canton Patch also does not publish the names of those who are arrested for misedemeanor crimes.

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Here's the account police gave after they responded to the woman's home Tuesday: 

 and fire officials responded after 10 a.m. that morning to the 600 block of Summit Street SE, where the mother was threatening to shoot herself inside her home. The woman was on the phone with the Crisis Center, which had notified police, as police arrived.

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When police arrived, the woman barricaded herself inside her bedroom.

Officials shut down Summit Street and notified neighbors, telling them to either evacuate or stay inside their homes until they took the woman into custody.

The children were removed from the home before police forced entry into the woman's bedroom and took her into custody at 11:22 a.m. Tuesday.

Emergency responders then took the woman to Mercy Medical Center.

No injuries were reported.


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