Indiana law enforcement said last week they received a disturbing call from a white woman admitting to unleashing her violent Karen tantrum on her neighbor. However, the condition of victim made matters even more concerning.
Officers with the New Castle Police Department said they responded to a home on Stonegate Drive the evening of Aug. 20. The report mentioned a woman hitting someone with a bat, police said. Dispatchers clarified the report came in from 49-year-old Angela Canaday who admitted she hit another woman with the bat, per CBS 4 Indy. The woman in question was Canaday’s pregnant neighbor.
Police said the victim told them she was standing outside her home, yelling for her friend’s child when Canaday - seemingly at random - stepped outside her home in a tirade. The woman said Canaday began yelling at her and calling her a racial slur.
In response, the woman told the police she began to approach Canaday and advised her to watch her language because of the group of children outside. Canaday then went back into her house and emerged with a black wooden back and things went wayyy down hill, according to police.
Read what happened next from FOX 59 News:
“[Canaday] said ‘go on you n—– lovin’ f—— b—-.,’” the documents allege. “[Canaday] lunged towards [the woman] in an aggressive manner with the bat raised in her right hand, swinging it at [the woman] while [she] was holding her baby.”
The bat struck the pregnant woman, the documents said. Canaday then reportedly told the woman that she would “kill” her, calling her a “f—— b—-” once again. The documents said that this caused the woman to be “fearful [for] her life.”
Canaday was charged with battery resulting in bodily injury to a pregnant woman and intimidation, both felonies. It’s unclear if she will face enhanced hate crime charges for her use of a racial slur.