Carthage woman charged with assaulting man with axe

A Carthage woman pleaded not guilty to assault and armed criminal action during her arraignment Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court.

Chelsie Berry (DOB 1989) is being held in the Jasper County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond cash or surety.

From the probable cause statement:

Upon arrival, I spoke with Randall C. Nally. Randall told me that he was on the porch of a trailer at this property when Chelsie Rae Berry approached him with an axe in her hand and told him to leave the property.

Randall said he refused to leave because he lives there.

Randall said Chelsie then struck a window of the trailer with the axe, struck Randall on the front of his left shoulder with the axe using her right hand in an overhand motion, then began walking away from him.

Randall said that as Chelsie was walking away, she threw the axe back at him with her right hand using. a backhand motion and the axe struck him in the stomach. Randall had a red mark on his stomach where he said the axe hit him, but he was not bleeding. Randall told me that Chelsie had been drinking alcohol and using Xanax. Randall wanted to press charges.

I saw broken glass on the porch of the trailer, a broken window on the trailer and I saw an axe with a dark-colored handle on the ground near the porch of the trailer.

A Jasper County deputy took Berry to Mercy Carthage to determine if she was fit for confinement, according to the probable cause statement.

Throughout the transport and at the hospital, Chelsie continually yelled profanities and racial slurs at me, at Deputy Howerton and at medical staff and continually spit on the window and interior of my patrol vehicle. Chelsie was in a spit hood, but she spit so much that spit was coming through the hood. In the exam room at the hospital, I saw her spit through the hood onto the forearm of Deputy Howerton.

A bond review hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.