Providence police respond to 2 knife assaults within 10 minutes

PROVIDENCE — Two women were involved in separate knife-wielding assaults early Monday morning, authorities said.

A 30-year-old woman, Kaieema Gadson, was charged with felony domestic assault after police went to 120 Ledge St. at 12:47 a.m. and found a man bleeding from his hand due to an apparent stab wound, according to Providence police Maj. David Lapatin.

A witness told police that the man’s ex-girlfriend, Gadson, had cut him after he found her vandalizing his vehicle, said Lapatin.

The man, Anthony Todd, told police that an “unknown subject in possession of a large kitchen knife” had assaulted him, he said.

Police found Gadson at 184 Chabot St., and observed that she had dried blood on her face and hands, he said.

In the other case, a 37-year-old woman was arrested after police went to Taco Bell on Douglas Avenue at 12:39 a.m. and found a man bleeding from the head, authorities said.

The man told police that the woman had slashed him with a kitchen knife, cutting him on his right cheek and above his right eyebrow, when he tried to intervene in a domestic disturbance involving her and her boyfriend, Lapatin said.

The man, he said, told police he had tried to separate the two people during their dispute in an apartment on Douglas Avenue.

Police arrested the woman, said Lapatin, but did not charge her due to a lack of cooperation from the man.