Two women were arrested Tuesday after a nasty battle broke out over who a child chose to call “Momma.”
An Ocala Police officer spotted the women – 25-year-old Talaesha Brionna Johnson and 23-year-old Lavonshae Brionta Boone – fighting in the front yard of a residence on NW Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. The officer reported that the women were using their fists and grabbing each other by the hair, an Ocala Police report says.
The officer said he was able to pull Boone off of Johnson and place then both in handcuffs so he could find out what was happening.
Boone said the altercation started when her 6-year-old stepson – Johnson’s biological child – called her “Momma.” Boone claimed that Johnson got upset and started swinging at her, the report says.
Johnson told the officer a similar story but claimed that Boone initially engaged her and took the first swing, the report says.
The child’s grandmother, who lives at residence in the 900 block of NW Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue with Boone, claimed that Johnson initiated the altercation. The child, however, said that Boone started the fight and swung first, the report says.
Both Johnson and Boone, who had scrape marks on their faces, were taken into custody, transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with battery. Both were released early Wednesday morning on $1,000 bonds.
Neither Boone nor Johnson are strangers to the Marion County legal system. Boone has been in the jail five times since August 2015, while Johnson has been held in the detention facility seven times since March 2014.