Police are searching for three people involved in an incident where a man got stabbed in the face over an alleged call to the Indiana Department of Child Services.

Nisa L. Green, 27, called her ex-husband on June 16 to come to her Gary residence on Forest Court to visit their 3-year-old daughter, according to court records. After their daughter greeted him, Nisa Green’s cousin, Jonathan E. Lowell, 24, of Chicago, put her and other children at the residence to bed and the shut the door to their room, the probable cause affidavit said.

Lowell then accused her ex-husband of calling DCS on Green and her boyfriend, David A. Norals, 27, of Chicago, for an incident where Norals was accused of “whooping” the 3-year-old daughter, according to court records. After complaining that she and Norals had to “go to the (DCS) office, take drug tests and talk to caseworkers,” Green swung at her ex-husband twice, hitting him in the jaw once, court records said.

Norals and Lowe got behind the victim and told him they were going to kill him before all three started punching him in the face, court records said. Lowe then started stabbing him in the mouth with a pair of scissors while Norals appeared to be hitting him in the head with “a hard object,” the affidavit said.

The victim regained consciousness as paramedics were treating him in a hallway of the residence, records said.

He was treated at Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus in Gary for stab wounds to the face, cuts on his ears, rib fractures and all-over bruising; he also lost five teeth in the incident, records said.

The victim told police that Green threatened him the next day via text, telling him to say he got “randomly jumped” for his daughter’s and the other children living in the home’s safety because she didn’t want other people involved, the affidavit said.

Green, Norals and Lowe have each been charged with attempted murder, a level one felony; aggravated battery, a level three felony; battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery by means of a deadly weapon, level five felonies.

Bond has been set at $100,000 for all three, and warrants have been issued for them.

Michelle L. Quinn is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.