'I Would Never Hit Him': Woman Denies Accusations She Attacked Boyfriend With Hammer
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MONESSEN (KDKA) -- A Monessen woman charged with hitting her boyfriend in the head with a hammer says she didn't do it.
Erin Nicole Walker, 33, made that claim in an interview with KDKA's Ross Guidotti, who was the only local television reporter to talk to her.
Walker is accused of attacking her boyfriend, Christopher Slavik, with a hammer after the two argued and he accused her of spending their money on marijuana instead of buying back-to-school clothes for their children.
"We've been together 10 years. We've had knockdown, drag-out fights. I'll fully admit to that," Walker said.
But she denied physically harming Slavik.
"No matter what, I don't want him dead, so to hit him in the face with a hammer is blasphemous. I would never hit him with a hammer," she said.
Walker claims, Slavik injured himself.
"He has a history of self-harm," she said.
Monessen Police Lieutenant David Yuhas says Slavik and one of the couple's three children tell a different version.
Yuhas says he pulled up to the couple's home on Linden Avenue Sunday to find Slavik locked out of the house and bleeding heavily from a wound above his right eye and covered in blood from his face to his chest.
"He said his girlfriend, the children's mother, struck him in the head with an unknown object. In the foyer area, there were spots of blood and a big pool of it," Yuhas said.
Yuhas says while all three of the couple's children were in the house at the time, their 7-year-old son actually witnessed the attack and backed up his father's account.
"He told me that he saw mom hit dad over the head with a hammer," Yuhas said.
As for the argument over the way the couple's money was being spent, there's a difference of opinion too. Yuhas says Slavik told him the couple was fighting because there was no money for the children's school clothes, and he accused Walker of spending it on marijuana.
Walker says it's not true that there was no money left for the children's back-to-school needs.
"I get three more checks before they go to school and I have every intent on buying them school clothes as a matter of fact," Walker said. "I got to the boiling point because I asked him to leave. He's the one that won't leave without a fight."
Walker faces a number of charges including aggravated assault. She's free on $50,000 unsecured bond.
