COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Two people have been arrested and face charges tied to a fatal stabbing in Colerain Township on January 21, according to Colerain police.
Police arrested 43-year-old Terrell Bailey and 44-year-old Shanice Shade for the stabbing, which left 37-year-old Christopher Tanner dead.
Shade is facing charges of obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence, while Bailey is facing charges of tampering with evidence and murder, court records show. Both are scheduled to appear in court for an arraignment Monday morning.
On January 21, Colerain officers were dispatched at around 11:51 p.m. after reports of trouble in the parking lot of the Prime at White Oak on Nandale Drive. When officers arrived, they found Tanner with stab wounds to his torso; Tanner was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries, police said.
In court Monday morning, prosecutors said Bailey and Shade are a couple who live together at the apartment complex where the stabbing happened. According to the prosecution, Colerain Township police were called to Bailey and Shade's apartment twice the day of the stabbing, for domestic violence incidents.
Within an hour of police leaving the apartment following those calls, prosecutors said police were called back for a report of unknown trouble. As Colerain police arrived at the apartment complex again, prosecutors said officers saw two people, later identified as Bailey and Shade, running from Tanner's body in the complex parking lot.
Officers also found a knife, which appeared to have been tossed across the parking lot, the prosecution said.
When police went to Bailey and Shade's apartment, they found "a large amount of blood" inside, leading investigators to believe the alleged stabbing had happened there and that Bailey and Shade moved Tanner outside to the parking lot, prosecutors said.
Tanner was at the apartment complex because Shade had called him to help her during the previous domestic violence incidents, prosecutors said.
The judge set Shade's bond at $50,000 for both of the charges she faces; Bailey was ordered to be held on a $15,000 bond for the tampering with evidence charge and a $1 million bond for the murder charge.
