Redwood City woman sent to prison for baseball bat attack while pregnant

Bay City News Service

A Redwood City woman was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in prison for attacking two police officers with a baseball bat while they attempted to detain her mother for theft in 2005.

Shakeyma Brooks, 24, was convicted on Jan. 10 of five counts of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the April 1 attack.

At the time of the assault Brooks was eight months pregnant. Her mother was being arrested under suspicion of theft at a Foods Co. grocery store in the 1400 block of Broadway Street in Redwood City, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office reported.

Brooks ran up to the arresting officers and began swinging at them with a baseball bat in an attempt to free her mother. She then went back to her car and drove at the officers twice in hope of freeing her mother, the district attorney's office reported.

Upon her arrest Brooks claimed the officers were abusing her mother and that she attacked them in self-defense.

Brooks has remained in custody in lieu of $350,000 bail since her arrest.