(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Perkins man accused of choking his girlfriend at his residence Sunday night has been freed on $2,500 bail on a felony charge of domestic assault and battery by strangulation.
Donald Robert Northcutt, 39, was advised by Special District Judge Katherine Thomas that he must have no contact with the woman and return to court on April 7 with an attorney, court records show.
Northcutt was arrested by Perkins Police Officer Kaylee Taylor, who was sent to his residence at 10:50 p.m. Sunday on a report that he had hit his girlfriend with a crowbar and held a knife to her neck, an affidavit alleged.
The woman, who had locked herself inside her vehicle, said “her boyfriend, Bob, had hit her in the head with his fist and had tried hitting her with a crowbar and frying pan,” the officer alleged in her affidavit.
“She advised me that he had stabbed himself in the neck a few times and held the knife up to her neck as well. She also advised me that he had placed his hand around her neck and tried to choke her out,” the officer alleged in her affidavit.
“I observed marks around her neck, felt a large bump on the left side of her head, observed two scratches on her left eye and blood that was drying around a piercing in her right earlobe. One of the scratches on her eye was just below her eyebrow and the other just below her eye,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
After advising Perkins Fire Department personnel of a possible neck wound to the man, the officer had the woman stay by her patrol car while the officer talked to the man, the affidavit said.
“When I approached the back door, I knocked and a male answered the door yelling and telling me that I needed to just leave already.
“When he noticed that I was a police officer, he quickly apologized and changed his demeanor immediately,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“I asked him what happened and he advised me that they had gotten into an argument after she got off work and that it was over and done with, and he just wanted her to leave for the night,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“I asked him if he had hit her tonight, and he advised ‘yes…she was twisting my ear and I went off and popped her in the head to get her to stop,"” the officer alleged in her affidavit.
“I asked if he had stabbed himself in the neck and he replied no. I could not see any injury to his neck. I did see a stain on his shirt just below his neck, and he advised me that she had thrown her drink at him,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
After the officer advised Northcutt that he was being detained while she sought more information, “I placed him in the back of my patrol vehicle and had the female accompany me inside the house to get more of the story,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
In the house, the woman showed the officer a bedroom with a large crowbar leaning against the wall, the affidavit said.
“She advised me that she was laying on the bed in the corner in a fetal position while Mr. Northcutt was swinging the crowbar at her.
“I could see holes in the wall that appeared to have come from the crowbar being hit against the wall,” where there appeared to be an impression of a fist below one of the holes made by the crowbar, the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“I also found the knife that had a red color liquid that was consistent with a drink of some sort. She showed me into the kitchen where I found drops of the same liquid all over the floor along with a broken handle that appeared to have been part of a frying pan,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“I located the rest of the frying pan on the floor next to the stove on the ground partially under the kitchen cabinets. She advised me that when she was in the bedroom next to the kitchen, he was throwing things at her, and when she left the bedroom, he threw it back into the kitchen where I found it,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
While personnel from the Perkins Fire Department checked out the woman’s head and other injuries, “I went back inside and took pictures of the weapons and evidence,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
Based on the woman’s injuries, Northcutt was arrested, the affidavit said.
“LifeNet arrived and finished checking the victim’s injuries,” which the officer photographed, the affidavit said.
The woman, who said she did not want to go to the hospital, was released, given a domestic violence packet, and advised of her rights to a protective order, the affidavit said.
“I transported Mr. Northcutt to the Payne County Jail where based on my observations and his statement, he was booked in on domestic assault and battery by strangulation,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
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