Authorities arrested a Lorain woman early Friday morning after she allegedly struck a friend with her car while intoxicated. Brittany Ogletree, 21, of Lorain, was taken into custody at 2:53 a.m. along Lorain Drive for suspicion of felonious assault and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, according to a police report. The report filed on the incident claims Ogletree struck Donna Brown, 23, of Lorain, after being teased about having a sexual transmitted disease. The alleged teasing came after Ogletree, Brown and several other individuals had been out at a bar drinking and returned to a property at 2160 Lorain Drive.
The report states as several people stood outside, “Brittany became very upset and aggravated,†over the teasing. A witness told police that Brittany, “Began making threats towards people and yelling and screaming at them.†According to the report Brittany got into her vehicle and drove at the group trying to hit an individual named ‘Jimmie’. The report says she missed ‘Jimmie’, and struck Brown.
When police came upon Brown, according to the report, she pulled up her pant leg and showed the officer a bone sticking out of her skin, three inches above her ankle. Brown was taken by Life Care to Mercy Hospital.
