An East Chicago woman got four years probation Friday in a 2022 stabbing, court records show.
Janisha Lowe, 28, signed a plea agreement Nov. 22 for aggravated battery. As part of the plea, she was sentenced to three years in jail, but served enough time with jail credit to satisfy that part of the sentence.
Gary Police were dispatched Sept. 29, 2022 to a house in the 4000 block of West 10th Avenue at 1:25 a.m. for a domestic disturbance. Officers arrived to find Lowe screaming atop the outside stairs while the victim was lying in the yard with a noticeable wound that was bleeding on his back, court records state. The 46-year-old man was able to tell police that Lowe stabbed him, the records state, but as Lowe was handcuffed, she said she was sorry and claimed the victim had stabbed himself. Lowe had blood on her hands and face and did not have any injuries, according to the affidavit.
The victim was questioned in the Intensive Care Unit of Methodist Hospital Northlake, where he told police that he and Lowe were having an argument about him contacting another woman when she came in the bedroom of a house and began stabbing him repeatedly, saying “Die, die, die,” according to the probable cause affidavit. The victim managed to run out of the house before collapsing in the front yard, court records state.
Lowe was originally charged with attempted murder, a Level 1 felony; aggravated battery that poses a substantial risk of death, a Level 3 felony; domestic battery by means of a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony; domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury; a Level 5 felony; and misdemeanor domestic battery.
Defense lawyer John Maksimovich represented Lowe, while Deputy Prosecutor C.J. Washington was assigned.
Post-Tribune archives contributed.
