*BIZZARE* KIMSHIA RUFFIN - 2 yo/ Accused: Dead Woman-Sharice Swain- Cleveland OH

A Cleveland woman was charged with murder Saturday in the stabbing death
of her best friend, who tried to drive away afterward and fatally
struck the accused woman's 2-year-old daughter, police said.
The two women were sitting in a running parked car Thursday when they
got into an argument, police said. Kimberly Black left the vehicle, went
into her house, returned with a knife and stabbed Sharice Swain in the
face and neck, said Sgt. Sammy Morris, a
police spokesman.
The wounded Swain then stepped on the gas pedal and hit Black's two young children, who were standing near the car.
Two-year-old Kimshia Ruffin was killed, and her 1-year-old sister,
Taraji Ruffin, was struck, but her injuries were not considering
life-threatening, police said.
Black, 29, was found naked several blocks away and arrested Thursday
night. She has been in custody since and wasn't available to comment. It
wasn't clear whether she has an attorney.
Black is due in court Monday morning.
Police have not said what started the argument.
It also wasn't clear whether Swain, 29, hit the children intentionally
or accidentally. Neighbors who went to the aid of Sharice Swain after
she was stabbed think Black was the intended target of the revving
vehicle, said Nikki Randall, 30, whose daughter
goes to school with Black's 6-year-old daughter.
"It was on purpose," Randall said. "She was actually trying to hit the mama."
The car also struck a house, collapsing the roof of the porch.
The women had been "best friends since birth" and Swain considered Black
a cousin, according to the victim's mother, Anita Swain.
She said she didn't know what started the argument and declined to comment further.
Black was arrested less than a block away from the location of the
now-demolished house where the remains of 11 murdered women were found
in 2009. The killer, Anthony Sowell, is appealing his murder conviction
and death sentence.

http://thetimes-tribune.com/stabbed-woman-runs-over-assailant-s-child-before-dying-1.1317974

You are right Tom. This is a very bizzare case.

A Cleveland woman is due in court on a murder charge in a bizarre stabbing.

Police say the woman stabbed her best friend who then tried to drive away and fatally struck and killed the accused woman's 2-year-old daughter.

Police say Kimberly Black was found naked several blocks away and arrested Thursday night.

She has been in custody since then and wasn't available to comment. It wasn't clear whether she has an attorney.

Black is scheduled to be in Cleveland Municipal Court on Monday morning.

Police say Black's friend Sharice Swain was stabbed during an argument Thursday while sitting behind the wheel of a car. She tried to drive away and struck the girl. Another of Black's daughters also was injured.

http://www.onntv.com/content/stories/apexchange/2012/05/21/oh--stabbing-vehicle-hits-child.html

$1M Bond for Woman Charged in Fatal Stabbing

by Ted Achladis and Dave Nethers,
Posted on: 1:15 pm, May 19, 2012,
updated on: 11:48am, May 21, 2012

CLEVELAND — Bond was set at $1 million for a woman charged in connection with a bizarre stabbing that left another woman and a 2-year-old girl dead.

Kimberly Black, 29, was also ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation.

Charged with murder, Black appeared in Cleveland Municipal Court on Monday morning.

Police say the incident in question started on East 125th Street at approximately 9 p.m. Thursday.

Witnesses tell Fox 8 News that Black was sitting in the passenger seat of a car driven by Sharice Swain, also 29.

Without warning, Black started stabbing Swain, then got out of the car. According to the police report, Swain was cut from ear to ear with a one-inch-deep wound.

Bayshaun East was sitting on his front porch across the street.

“I mean, they wasn’t even arguing or nothing,” said East. “The girls wasn’t arguing. (Black) just flipped out and got this knife, and got to stabbing the girl while she was sitting in the driver’s seat.”

East says Black then got out of the car, went inside the house and came out with a bigger knife. He told Fox 8 News that Black then stripped off all of her clothes, grabbed two of her children and ran out into the street.

Swain, who was bleeding profusely, punched the gas and took off out of the driveway, hitting the children before crashing through a chain link fence and into the porch where East had been sitting.

“Just a couple seconds, and all hell broke loose. Just a couple of quick seconds,” said East.

Witnesses say Black, still naked, then took her children, Taraji Ruffin, 1, and Kimshia Ruffin, 2, and left the scene walking toward East 123rd Street, where she sat down on a sidewalk screaming.

“She was on the sidewalk holding the baby, just saying, ‘Save my kids, save my kids,’” said Shannon Tyburski.

Police say the 2-year-old died from her wounds. The 1-year-old was taken to Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital with what was described as non life-threatening injuries.

Black was taken into custody near East 123rd and Soika Avenue, then transported to MetroHealth Medical Center with a hand injury.

Neighbors say what they witnessed late Thursday was uncharacteristic of Black, who seemed to be very protective of her children.

“She was a decent mom,” said Otae Watkins, who says he took popsicles to the children just the day before.

“She was there, didn’t leave them alone or nothing,” said Watkins.

Swain was also transported to a local hospital, where police say she was later pronounced dead. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday ruled that she died as a result of a stab wound to the neck.

http://fox8.com/2012/05/19/woman-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-stabbing/