Police in Council Bluffs were dispatched to Mercy Hospital around 2:30-a.m. today (Sunday), where a woman was reported to have been cut with a knife during a disturbance. The victim told officers that the alleged female offender, 23-year old Shyanne Dalton-Birdsong, was fighting with Shyanne’s roommate and “made stabbing motions” towards the roommate with a knife. The victim tried to intervene between Shyanne and Shyanne’s roommate, and ended up having two of her fingers cut.

Officers went to 3115 12th Avenue and located Dalton-Birdsong and her roommate. The suspect was arrested on charges of Aggravated Assault and Aggravated Domestic Abuse.