Kansas City man charged with assaults after woman injured, baby suffered brain bleed
A Kansas City man was charged with a series of felonies Thursday after he allegedly assaulted a baby and a woman, which left the child with a brain bleed and the woman with multiple head injuries.
Prosecutors charged Deamonte L. Oliver, 24, with counts of first-degree assault, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree harassment and three counts of armed criminal action in Jackson County Circuit Court Thursday. Oliver is being held without bond.
Kansas City police stopped a vehicle the three were traveling in Thursday near the intersection of West Bannister Road and Wyandotte Street in south Kansas City after the woman made a series of secret 911 calls, according to court documents. Oliver was taken into custody.
The woman had multiple golf ball-sized knots on her face and on the back of her head, and the baby had blood on his onesie and had swelling and redness on the side of his face that was consistent with a gun grip, a detective wrote in a report. The child also had a large knot on the side of his head and was taken to a hospital for treatment, where he was found to have a minor brain bleed, the detective stated.
In the first of the frantic calls from the vehicle, a woman could be heard crying as a man made death threats. She attempted to pass on their location by whispering locations as they were driving.
In another call in which the woman identified the man as “Tay,” a baby could be heard screaming. The woman pleaded with the man to take her to the hospital, saying the baby was bleeding.
The man could be heard saying he was going to shoot the woman, and, “At one point, the male was overheard saying he was going to dump her north and no one would find her or the baby,” the detective wrote.
After police tracked down the vehicle, the woman reported the three lived together and that Oliver had assaulted her, threatened to kill her and used a gun to force her into the back seat of her vehicle, according to court documents. She reported he drove away from their home and alleged he later pistol whipped her and the child multiple times.
Oliver allegedly told detectives the two had gotten into a fight in the vehicle but denied assaulting the child and was unsure how the boy became injured, a detective wrote. Oliver denied kidnapping the woman and said he had been trying to drop her off at her mother’s house, police stated.
Police searched the vehicle and found two loaded pistols inside, one underneath the driver’s seat and the other in the glove box, a detective wrote.
Oliver made an initial court appearance Friday and was referred for a screening for a public defender. He is scheduled for a bond review hearing Sept. 12.
