COLUMBUS, Ohio — A mother was arrested Friday in connection with an Amber Alert for her 4-year-old son.
Sierra Brown, 24, was charged with domestic violence and assault. Her friend, 23-year-old Taysen Hixon, was also arrested and charged with aggravated menacing.
Just before 5 a.m., Brown’s son Matthew Brown-Giamarco was reported missing by his father from the area of Wedgewood Drive and Eakin Road in southwest Columbus.
Columbus Police Sgt. James Fuqua said there was a domestic dispute between Brown and the father before the missing child report was filed.
Records from the Franklin County Municipal Court state that just before 3:50 a.m., Brown struck the father multiple times in the face and body. Court records did not provide details as to what led to the alleged assault.
Hixon allegedly pointed a gun at the father and another person in the room and said, “I will shoot you and him because he is a witness,” according to court records.
An Amber Alert was issued around 10 a.m. for Matthew. Fuqua said because of previously alleged incidents at the residence, police considered it a “very high-risk situation.”
“Unfortunately, there were some alleged domestic abuse incidents between the mother and the son that were not reported to us that the father of the child did report to us that had happened a few days prior to today," he said.
Fuqua said the boy was found unharmed just after 11 a.m. in the 600 block of Dexter Avenue. Additionally, Brown reached out to detectives and she and Hixon turned themselves in.
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Police said the mother reached out to detectives and they turned themselves in.