By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 21-year-old Cushing man accused of choking a 17-year-old relative on the night before Halloween has been jailed on $10,000 bail pending his arraignment Tuesday on a felony domestic violence charge.
If convicted of domestic assault and battery by strangulation , Gabriel James Butler could be incarcerated for one to three years and fined $3,000.
The victim said, “she tried to get away from Gabriel and that’s when Gabriel put her in a choke hold type headlock restricting her airway,” an affidavit by Cushing Police Officer David Smith alleged.
The victim said, “she felt like she was going to lose consciousness, couldn’t breathe, and had felt dizzy,” the affidavit alleged.
“I observed a red-blushed face, bloodshot eyes, bloodshot eyelids, and bloodshot vessels on the inside of her lips,”according to the officer, who arrested Butler at 8:43 pm on Oct 30.
The victim said, “she did hit and fight Gabriel while she was in the headlock in the struggle to get away from him,” the affidavit alleged.
When Butler was asked if the victim was put into a headlock, “he advised not intentionally,” the affidavit alleged.
“I asked what he meant by that; he advised (she) had slipped into a headlock and began hitting him,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
Another juvenile female relative at the Cushing residence said that when the victim attempted to get away from Butler, he put her in a choke hold, the affidavit alleged.
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