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2/6/21
A North Liberty woman faces charges that she barged into a Coralville apartment and sprayed the residents, including a four-year-old child, with pepper spray.
26-year-old Zhane Ball of Sugar Creek Lane was booked into the Johnson County Jail just before 7pm Friday.
Coralville Police were called to an apartment on Boston Way just after 9:15 Wednesday night for a fight in progress after Ball allegedly showed up to fight the cousin of one of the victims. Witnesses say Ball knocked on the apartment door trying to incite a confrontation, but nobody answered.
After a while, the occupants believed Ball had left, so one woman left the apartment. When she walked out, Ball allegedly stepped inside the door and began indiscriminately discharging pepper spray. One occupant, the ex-boyfriend of the woman who walked outside, was hit directly in the face. The man’s four-year-old daughter was also within reach of the spray radius.
Ball continued spraying the entire living room. Multiple occupants reported experiencing pain, burning, and irritation to the eyes and throat.
Ball is charged with 1st Degree Burglary. If convicted, she faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.
Ball was charged with Assault Causing Bodily Injury in 2014 after another incident in which she pepper-sprayed a woman with whom she’d been arguing.