A 32-year-old woman suspected of beating another woman with a child’s scooter was arrested last night in Greeley.
Renee Soto is being held on suspicion of third-degree assault, said Sgt. Joe Tymkowych, a Greeley Police Department spokesman.
Soto and the victim, Amanda Watkins, 26, got into an argument at around noon Sunday when Watkins talked to Soto’s 3-year-old child about “harassing or hitting” a cat, police said.
The incident happened near Soto’s home in the 1900 block of Seventh Avenue, Tymkowych said.
As Watkins talked to the child about the cat, Soto came out of her home, and an argument escalated into a fight between the two women, Tymkowych said.
“It was a fistfight, with hair-pulling and scratching,” Tymkowych said.
A witness who stopped to break up the fight told police that Soto grabbed a “Razor,” a two-wheel, kick scooter with a handle bar, and hit Watkins with it across the back and in the head.
Watkins fell to the ground, and witnesses came to her aid, covering her with a blanket. Soto had gone back into her home, with the 3-year-old, and left out of a rear exit when police arrived, Tymkowych said.
Watkins, who told police that she is nine weeks pregnant, was treated at North Colorado Medical Center for minor injuries and released.
The women did not know each other before Sunday’s confrontation, Tymkowych said.
Soto is being held at the Weld County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
