Two young children are staying with relatives, after their parents got into a bloody fight over the weekend. Deputies were called to he home shared by Steward Edwards and Latonya Sales on Martin Road early Friday evening. they found the two near a pickup in front of the house, her holding a knife, him yelling at her form the front seat of the pickup. She turned toward the deputies, knife still in her hand, and started to approach them. When she was told to put the knife down and back off, she cooperated.

Their stories about what happened differ a bit, but not substantially. It seems he has another girlfriend, and both agree he was trying to leave the house -- whether it was to go to her is a point in dispute. Nevertheless, a verbal argument started in the house, with each claiming the other started assaulting them. Edwards says she came after him first with a knife, then with a bat, both of which he took from her and threw into a field behind the house. Sales says he started hitting her with a sheathed sword, and she got out the knife to defend herself after he tried to strangle her. They agree with witnesses who say she chased him out of the house with a knife and was slashing at him as he got in the pickup and tried to leave.

Deputies found signs of abuse on both of them, consistent with most of their individual stories. Both were arrested on assault charges, and their children's grandmother was called to take custody of the kids. Deputies do not indicate either of the adults had to be taken to the hospital for treatment.

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