A 29-year-old woman faces an assault charge after police say she attacked another woman on a Spirit Airlines flight that had just landed at Portland International Airport on Sunday.
The trigger for the alleged assault: children kicking the back of their chair.
Daydrena Jaslin Walker-Williams pulled his luggage from an overhead compartment and then turned and punched fellow passenger Nataly Hernandez several times, leaving Hernandez with a bleeding lip and lumps on the head, a likely cause statement.
Hernandez’s two sons, aged 7 and 3, are said to have witnessed the assault.
Walker-Williams admitted that he hit Hernandez “2-3 times in the face with his fist,” according to the complaint. She told the police “she was upset that Ms. Hernandez’s children kicked the back of her chair and said that she told Ms. Hernandez ‘to tell the children to stop this'”. She said Hernandez ignored her and later “tapped her on the shoulder.”
Walker-Williams said he did not tell a commissioner about the blow on the shoulder because his “first reaction was to fight,” according to the statement. The officers then told Walker-Williams that other people on the plane saw her punch Hernandez, but did not see Hernandez tap her on the shoulder. Walker-Williams response: “You do what you have to do”.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office accused Walker-Williams of fourth-degree criminal assault and harassment.
– Douglas Perry