JACKSON - An Ypsilanti man is accused of stabbing his mother in the back with a dinner fork and clubbing another woman over the head with a 10-pound frozen chicken.

Frederick McKaney, 40, also faces a charge of resisting Jackson police officers who responded to a reported assault on Woodbridge Street late Monday night."He stabbed his mother in the back of the neck when she refused to give him money, and then, an hour later, he attacked a neighbor woman with a chicken," Jackson County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Blumer said.

Blumer secured warrants against McKaney on Wednesday afternoon for two counts of felonious assault and resisting and opposing police. McKaney remains in the Jackson County Jail.

McKaney, whose criminal file includes stints in jail and prison, apparently went to his mother's house, or was staying there, when he demanded cash from her.

Blumer said that after he jabbed his mother McKaney was riding a bike at 7:30 p.m. when he encountered two women talking on the sidewalk on Woodbridge.

"He said something nasty to them and they responded in kind," Blumer said. "He jumped off his bike and hit one woman over the head with 10 pounds of chicken."

The woman was treated at Foote Hospital in Jackson, and needed five five staples in her head to close up the wound, Blumer said. The husband of the victim in the poultry assault trailed McKaney in a pickup truck and flagged a responding officer on Biddle Street, Deputy Police Chief John Holda said.

The fork attack drew some blood but did not cause serious injury, Blumer said.