A woman was cited with assault on Wednesday after police say she sprayed bear mace at a boy in a Nicholasville park.
Family says the incident happened around 4 p.m. at Lake Mingo Corman Park. Justin Barnes, fiancé to the boy’s mom, says he was fishing at the time.
“All of a sudden we just hear a kid screaming,” Barnes said. “He said, ‘Justin, Justin, she pepper sprayed me’ and we all just freaked out. His mom ran over there to him real fast.”…