Kinston police are looking to arrest a man for allegedly striking his ex-girlfriend with a flatiron.
Officers with the Kinston Department of Public Safety responded to a call of an assault in the 300 block of Richard Green Court shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday.
“Officers responded to the address and went inside and found (the victim) on the couch, holding a washcloth to her head,” KDPS spokesman Woody Spencer said. “(The victim) told officers her ex-boyfriend, Darian Whitfield, struck her in the face several times with a flatiron. She had a laceration above her right eye.”
An arrest warrant for assault was taken out for Whitfield, 22.
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