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A family fight erupted about 10 p.m. Monday on the 1200 block of Ninth Street when a woman’s two daughters visited her and her partner. 

Police Capt. Bobby Miller said the daughters, whose father previously had been married to their mother, called their mother but they found their telephone call phone was blocked. 

When they went to their mother’s home to investigate, they were confronted by their mother’s male friend. The confrontation escalated into an argument, said Miller, and one of the daughters went into the kitchen and picked up a butcher knife and swung it at the man several times over his head. He managed to pick up a pillow and ward off blows to his head, and then she threw the knife at him but missed. He sustained cuts on his left forearm and on one knee but was not seriously injured. Myrina Drummer, 18, was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.