A resident of Wildwood Commons Apartments was arrested on battery charges after allegedly strangling a woman and breaking her phone.
A deputy responded to a domestic disturbance involving 23-year-old Brandell Demond Crossley at an undisclosed Coleman residence around 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
Upon arrival, the deputy met the female victim in the front yard of the home. Paramedics quickly took her to a local hospital for further evaluation due to her complaints and injuries, including fresh red marks on the right side of her neck consistent with strangulation. She later gave a statement to law enforcement while at the hospital, the report said.
She advised that she had fallen asleep at the residence with Crossley, and she woke up to him going through her phone. He became angry, put both of his hands around the front of her neck and choked her until she could not breath as she lay on her bed. He let off only to choke her a second time, the report said…