(Cushing, Okla.) A Cushing man — who was already on probation for choking a girlfriend four years ago — has been ordered to appear in court Friday on a felony charge of abusing another woman identified as his wife in court documents filed last week.
If convicted of shoving his wife to the ground and slamming a door on her — causing injuries to her right foot, right leg and left wrist on June 12, Silas Walker Cox, 25, could be given a four-year prison term. He remains free on $7,500 bail.
Four years ago, Cox was charged with hitting and choking his then-girlfriend and vandalizing her car in Cushing on July 24, 2008, court records show.
Cushing Police Officer Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit that when he saw Cox’s girlfriend, she had blood coming from her nose and red marks consistent with handprints on the left side of her cheek. She also had redness on the right side of her front and back neck area, the affidavit said.
She said that she was at Cox’s house when he got mad and began throwing her belongings out in the hallway, the affidavit said.
She said that “she tried to pick up her stuff and they started pushing each other,” the affidavit said.
She said that she went to the bathroom to get her belongings and “Cox punched her in the face area with a closed fist,” the affidavit said.
Cox broke all of her makeup, grabbed her by the throat, pushed her against the closet door and threw her stuff at her, the affidavit said.
She said that “she went to the bedroom to make sure that she had everything that she needed to leave and that Cox pushed her on the bed and was choking her,” the affidavit said.
She said that she remembered Cox had slapped her in the face, but she did not know if she lost consciousness, the affidavit said.
She said she began to pick up her stuff again “and that Cox picked up her cell phone and broke it,” the affidavit said.
She said that when she got in her car to leave, “Cox kicked and broke both front headlights and punched her front windshield,” along with throwing a brick at the car, the affidavit said.
The officer observed that both headlights on the car were broken, the front windshield on the passenger side was damaged, and the front hood area had a dent with scratches consistent with a brick hitting it, the affidavit said.
When Cushing police went to Cox’s residence, they received no response, but the next day talked to Cox while a sheriff’s deputy was serving him notice of an emergency protective order that Cox’s girlfriend obtained that day, the affidavit said.
Cox said that he never used a closed fist on his girlfriend, but slapped her about three times, the affidavit said. Cox said that his girlfriend hit him across the face, but the officer did not see any injury to Cox’s face, the affidavit said.
Cox said he choked his girlfriend “because she slapped him and was throwing his belongings around in the house,” the affidavit said.
Cox admitted that he damaged his girlfriend’s car, the affidavit said. “Silas said that he kicked both headlights out and punched the front windshield. I asked Silas if he threw a brick at the vehicle and he said yes,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
In that felony domestic violence case, which was filed as assault and battery by strangulation, Cox received a three-year deferred sentence in 2009 — with an order to pay $2,722 restitution, to perform 50 hours of community service and to have an anger management course. He was also fined $300.
About 18 months later in December 2010, Cox was found in violation of the rules of that deferred sentence, given a felony conviction and placed on a three-year suspended sentence, court records show.
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