Orange police are investigating two separate incidents of domestic violence involving firearms during the weekend. A 20-year-old man was arrested for aggravated robbery-carjacking.
The other incident involved a man holding a pistol to his mother’s head and threatening to kill her if she didn’t give him $100,000. No arrest was reported in that aggravated assault because the man had left by time police arrived.
Police were called to the Alexander Homes apartments, 2033 Fourth Street, at 7:13 Saturday morning because of the attack. The mother said her son pressed the gun to her head and then grabbed her hair and pushed her against the wall. At one point in the attack, she was pushed against a television stand. The television fell and broke.
She told officers the son thought she owed him $100,000 and was demanding it. She begged him to leave and he left. She told police she thinks he left because neighbors were coming out of their apartments to check on her.
Saturday afternoon about 5, police had a 911 call about a carjacking in Roselawn. A 21-year-old woman said the biological father of her toddler had pointed a pistol at her after she refused to let him borrow her car. Even though they do not have a romantic relationship, she had driven him to Wal-Mart and was driving him back to a house when he pulled the gun and then stole the Toyota Camry.
The baby was in the back seat of the car.
A West Orange police officer stopped the car in the 100 block of Camellia soon after the 911 call came. The West Orange officer reported the man he stopped had a Taurus semi-automatic handgun with a full magazine with one round in the chamber.
Officers arrested 20-year-old Clifton Shamar Hawthorne of Orange for aggravated robbery.
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