Lang
1/27/23
A Shelter House resident faces charges that she assaulted and injured a staff member.
Iowa City Police were called to the Southgate Avenue homeless shelter just after 10:45 Wednesday morning for two female residents fighting. A staff member tried to break the fight up, but one of the participants…identified as 22-year-old Benyana Harper…allegedly assaulted the staff member so she could continue assaulting the other woman.
The staff member sustained an injury, and the other resident suffered substantial bruising and swelling to the left side of her face near her eye.
Harper is charged with Assault Causing Bodily Injury. If convicted, she faces a maximum of one year in jail.