A 48-year-old Ortonville woman told the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department that her husband attacked her, and tried to stab her with a knife, at Civic Center Park on July 20.
According to the OCSD report, the woman and her husband, a 48-year-old Lapeer man whom she is in the process of divorcing, both work at the GM Orion Assembly Plant.
She said she switched shifts to avoid him, and had met with a co-worker to talk at Civic Center Park on Joslyn Road. She did not realize her husband, whom she has a personal protection order against in Lapeer County, had followed her.
The woman told the OCSD her husband suffers from anxiety and depression, and has told her he is bi-polar. She said she got the PPO because he had threatened her and she feared for her life.
The woman was sitting in her car at Civic Center Park, near the soccer fields, when her husband told her to roll down her window. She rolled it down about five inches and her husband reached inside and grabbed her hair.
She said he struck her head against the glass, and opened her door. He punched her and pinned her to the seat, then held a knife in front of her face.
The woman told the OCSD that she grabbed his arm, and her husband pulled the knife towards her as if to stab her.
She screamed and began honking the car horn. Her husband ran away when other people began approaching her vehicle.
The man fled the area. The OCSD Aviation Unit searched the area, with negative results. The woman had a cut to the inside of her upper lip.
The OCSD later learned that the man had checked himself into a hospital.