Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Davongelo Cortez Kimbrough, 33, was arrested yesterday and charged with putting a 7-year-old child in his car, unsupervised, before allegedly entering his ex-girlfriend’s apartment without permission, attacking her and a man, and later contacting her over 100 times after she asked him to stop.
An Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy reported that the female victim said on June 29 that Kimbrough, her ex-boyfriend, had threatened her seven-year-old son to get him to open her front door at 4:26 a.m. on June 28. The child later reportedly said that Kimbrough told him he would “whoop” him if he didn’t open the door. Kimbrough allegedly carried the child down to his pickup truck and put him in the truck, alone, before returning to the apartment. The female victim said she believed the child had been left alone in the truck between about 4:27 a.m. and 5 a.m.; she did not know whether the doors were locked or whether the truck was running while the child was inside…