Two persons were apparently stabbed and another was belted in the head with a cane during a weekend altercation at a Boardman apartment building at 65 Shields Rd.
      According to police reports, a conflagration broke out when a man looked at another man’s girlfriend ‘the wrong way.’
      Near 1:00 a.m. last Sat., Apr. 19, six police cruisers were sent to the apartment building where several people were reported to be “fighting in the basement.”
      Officers first encountered Frank Hosey, 33, of 2130 McGuffey Rd., Youngstown; who poked his head out of an apartment door and told police he was not involved in the altercation.
      “It’s not us, you got the wrong apartment...It’s Joey and he crazy,” Hosey, a black man, told police.
      Officers next encountered two caucasions, Jessica Quick, 22, who told police she lives in the apartment building with her fiance, Joe J. DiGiacomo, 26.
      Quick was sitting on a cement landing and officers heard her tell someone, “Stay inside. The cops are here.”
      Police have responded to Quick’s and DiGiacomo’s residence “numerous times for disturbances,” Officer Paul Poulos said.
      After Quick’s admonition, Ptl. Poulos heard someone from inside the apartment building respond, “I don’t give a f---.”
      The voice was DiGiacomo’s, Officer Poulos said, reporting the man was ordered from the apartment with his hands up.
      DiGiacomo told police he had by jumped for no reason “by those black dudes,” and then told police “That’s when I stabbed him.”
      All the while, police said that Quick “kept interfering with their investigation” to the point Ptl. Anthony Ciccotelli was deployed to keep the woman at bay from police.
      Officer Poulos then went to downstairs apartment unit where he found 20-year-old Milt Anderson with a towel wrapped around his left arm.
      Anderson told police he had been stabbed by a man named Joey.
      As Anderson was being interviewed by police, Officer Poulos said he heard a “cracking sound” and turned around to see DiGiacomo and Hosey engaged in a fight behind a police cruiser.
      Hosey desisted when ordered to do so and was placed in handcuffs, but police said that DiGiacomo began to run through the parking lot, and then suddenly turned towards officers and “put both of his hands in front of him, balled his fists and assumed the fighting position.” Ed. note: Not a good idea.
      In police language, DiGiacomo was “escorted to the ground” where he continued to struggle. The struggle ceased when a taser was placed near DiGiacomo’s thigh.
      “Okay, okay, I give up,” DiGiacomo, 6-2 and 245 lbs., said.
      With some semblance of order restored, police continued their investigation.
      Therow Hardy, who lives in the apartment building, told police that Hosey, Anderson and DiGiacomo, as well as several babes, were in his apartment “having a good time” when a minor altercation broke out because “DiGiacomo looked at Hosey’s girl wrong.”
      Hardy said he quelled the disturbance and ordered Hosey and his friends out of the apartment.
      According to Hardy, Hosey returned and broke the door open to Hardy’s apartment ‘holding a piece of wood.’ Hosey was then confronted by DiGiacomo, who was armed with a knife and scissors,
      Another fight erupted, and Hardy claimed that DiGiacomo made a stabbing motion at Hosey and Anderson.
      Officer Poulos was told that Anderson and Hosey had been stabbed. The officer also reported that DiGiacomo was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital for treatment of a head wound he sustained when “Hosey struck him with a walking cane.”
      DiGiacomo, employed at DeChelis Italian Cafe at the Rogers Flea Market in Negley, was charged with felony assault, as well as tampering with evidence, obstruction and resisting arrest. He was given a free ride to the county jail where he was lodged on a $22,000 bond. His fiance was charged with disorderly conduct while intoxicated.
      Hosey was charged with felony assault, burglary and obstruction and sent to jail on $25,000 bond.
      DiGiacomo and Quick live in an apartment where the primary resident is DiGiacomo’s dad, Vincent, Officer Poulos said.
      The father allowed police inside his apartment where police recovered a knife.
      Officer Poulos also noted that Quick and all parties involved were “intoxicated.”