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"A Mason woman accused of trying to cut off a local tattoo artist's fingers with pruning shears took the stand on Tuesday.The story she told was very different than the victim\u2019s.Tattoo artist Brittany Rager said she was attacked with pruning shears, but the alleged attacker, Shena Moore, told the jury that Rager was the one with the loppers.Moore and Rager were once friends, but they are now facing off in a Warren County courtroom.Moore is accused of trying to cut Rager\u2019s finger off during a fight inside Moore's mobile home in Mason.But the story Moore told jurors Wednesday was very different, saying Rager came over unannounced.\u201CShe was yelling, she was cursing. She was being very belligerent. She had just struck my father and immediately afterwards she turned around and struck me,\u201D Moore said.Moore says she kicked Rager out, but Rager came storming back in.\u201CBrittany comes in, back in, and she has a pair of hedge clippers, the hedge clippers in her hands. Immediately I come up behind her, wrap my arms around her and I take her down over the arm of the recliner,\u201D Moore testified.But Rager said she ended up bloodied and bruised because Moore\u2019s boyfriend, John Gully, helped in the ambush.Rager said Moore's father Gerald Moore also hit her with his cane.Their stories also differ in why Rager was the Mason home that afternoon.Rager says she was lured over to to discuss sexual texts Gulley had sent her.Moore denies that, but during cross examination, prosecutors showed jurors a text Moore sent Rager the night before that read: \"Come over, let\u2019s talk.\"Moore was the only one of the three defendants to testify and she told jurors that her dad and boyfriend never hit Rager.Closings arguments are set to begin Wednesday morning."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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