James Brown's daughter charged with knife attack on husband

<p>One of singer James Brown's daughters has been charged with trying to kill her husband with a butcher knife on the day before her father's burial.</p><p>Yamma Brown Lumar was arraigned last week in Fulton County on a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the March 9 attack at the couple's Tuxedo Court home in Buckhead.</p><p>According to an Atlanta police report, Darren Lumar told investigators that the couple had argued and struggled when she broke free, went to the kitchen to get the knife and then stabbed him in the right forearm as he tried to restrain her.</p><p>The wife said it was self-defense. Her attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.</p><p>"She was going for my chest," Darren Lumar, 36, said Tuesday in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I have no doubt that woman was trying to kill me."</p><p>Darren Lumar, an investment banker, was charged with simple battery at the time. Yamma Brown Lumar was charged with aggravated assault.</p><p>She was not arrested, but she was asked to leave the home that night, the report states.</p><p>"They were going to take her to jail," Darren Lumar said. "I begged them not to take her to jail. She was going to miss her father's funeral."</p><p>The next day, he said, he traveled to his father-in-law's burial in South Carolina but was not allowed to attend the service. He said he was allowed to visit James Brown's grave after the burial.</p><p>Brown died on Christmas Day of heart failure at Atlanta's Crawford Long Hospital but was not buried for two-and-a-half months. He was 73.</p><p>The couple are in the midst of divorce proceedings.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2debc90)</p>

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