Albany woman injured in domestic dispute

ALBANY — In one of at least two incidents involving weapons over the weekend, a domestic incident resulted in a woman being taken to a hospital on Saturday, reports from the Albany Police Department show.

The first visit by the APD to 716 W. Residence Ave. on Saturday, at around 9:30 a.m., was unfounded due to lack of evidence of a crime. Police returned a second time, at around 11:30 a.m., to find a woman had been assaulted, said Phyllis Banks, spokeswoman for the APD.

The woman, who was in a wheelchair, told police she was knocked to the floor after her husband, identified in the police report as Terrance Phillips, attacked her with a table leg. She sustained a laceration to her right hand after being cut by her husband with scissors or a fork, both of which he was armed with when police arrived. Phillips complied when officers gave verbal commands to drop them both, Banks said.

A 4-year-old child, present at the scene, was outside when police arrived. No other injuries were reported. The wife was treated by paramedics at the scene and then taken to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Banks said.

There was no immediate word on the wife’s condition Monday afternoon. Phillips was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated assault and cruelty to children in the third degree, and was listed as unbondable in the Dougherty County Jail records as of late Monday afternoon.

Another aggravated assault reportedly involving a firearm took place on the 300 block of West Highland Avenue just after midnight on Sunday. The report from that incident was not immediately available on Monday.