Jury acquits teen of knife assault

NORRISTOWN » A 19-year-old Lansdale woman who was accused of stabbing three people, including her sister, with a kitchen knife during a fight at a party inside her home last fall has been acquitted by a jury, records indicate.

Rosalina Olomua, of the 600 block of North Cannon Avenue, was found not guilty of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and all other related offenses leveled against her in connection with the October incident after a trial presided over by Montgomery County Judge Gail Weilheimer, court records show.

Lansdale detectives had said that early on the morning of Oct. 14, police officers from both the borough and Hatfield Township responded to Abington—Lansdale Hospital for a report of several stabbing victims who were being treated there, and were told by the victims that they had been stabbed at a house party in Lansdale.

Police said that all the

stabbing injuries were minor, and all victims were released within hours.

Investigators spoke to Olomua, who was at the hospital, and she told them she’d hosted a party for her friends at her residence when a small group of males who hadn’t been invited crashed the party, court documents say.

A fight subsequently broke out between Olomua and her friends and the group of males, during which the stabbings occurred.

Two witnesses to the fracas

later said that Olomua was “heavily intoxicated” and yelling at the males to leave her house, and that they saw Olomua holding a kitchen knife when the lights suddenly went out inside the residence.

An individual who was stabbed at the party but fled the scene before cops arrived and did not seek medical treatment said that he didn’t see who assaulted him because the lights were out when the fight broke out, and that he didn’t see any of the party visitors in possession of a knife.