Stacy Stefan Capetillo
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — Bail has been set at $250,000 for an ex-convict accused of violently striking his girlfriend in the face — breaking an orbital bone impairing her vision — and choking her at his Stillwater apartment five months after he got out of prison.
“Upon contact with Stillwater Police Officer John Howell in the emergency room on 6/17/2025, (she) refused to cooperate with any type of investigation into her injuries. She made statements that if she said the name of who hurt her, she would be killed,” Stillwater Police Detective Rachel Bruce alleged in an affidavit.
Stacy Stefan Capetillo, 33, who was arrested nine days later by Stillwater Police Special Projects Sgt. Greg Savory outside Capetillo’s apartment on N. Boomer Road, remains held in the Payne County Jail pending an Aug. 4 court appearance at which he can seek a preliminary hearing on a two-count felony charge.
Capetillo could be given two life prison terms if convicted of abusing his girlfriend by domestic assault and battery resulting in great bodily harm and by domestic assault and battery by strangulation, both after a 2019 felony conviction for child endangerment in Cleveland County in 2017, court records show.
His girlfriend “had been contacted by Stillwater police three times on 6/17/2025 — once when she called for an ambulance at approximately 1:47 am, once when officers were called to the emergency room regarding concerns from ER staff that she had injuries which resulted from a domestic violence assault, and the final time when she was arrested,” at the hospital for public intoxication,” the affidavit said.
The Stillwater police detective alleged in an affidavit, “Due to suspicion of domestic abuse based on her injuries and her lack of cooperation, I was requested to interview (Capetillo’s girlfriend)” in the city jail where she had been for about eight hours.
“I observed (she) had a severely blackened left eye, bruising on her nose, and a black right eye. She reported she had received the injuries the previous Thursday from ‘a curb.’ She also reported she had been transferred to OU Medical from Stillwater Medical Center due to a stab wound in her buttocks. Initially, (she) was unwilling to share information about how she received the injuries.
“She reported she had been in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since May and had moved to Stillwater for her boyfriend. She reported she lived with him at an apartment near the location where she had been picked up by the ambulance. She told me she called the ambulance on 6/13/2025 due to her injuries and on 6/17/2025 due to chest pains.
“I spoke with her about her boyfriend whom she refused to identify. She referred to him as ‘the curb,’ stating the ‘curb beat me up,’ ‘the curb punched me,’ and ‘the curb choked me.’ She reported he did not work, was a very bad alcoholic and became violent when he drank.
“As I built rapport with her, she provided more information about what occurred on 6/13/2025. She informed me that her boyfriend had punched her in the face outside the apartment after she accidentally dropped a glass item and broke it. After punching her in the face, her pulled her into the apartment by her hair and called her names.
“She stated he then strangled her to unconsciousness. According to her, he poured water over her to wake her back up. She fled the apartment and called 911 for an ambulance. She advised me when she sought medical treatment, she was told she had a broken left orbital socket, which would require surgery. She reported she was no longer able to see color out of her left eye, as she previously had before.
“During this investigation, I obtained medical records from (her) visits to Stillwater Medical Center on 6/13/2025 and 6/17/2025. On 6/17/2025, the report stated (she) said ‘the curb’ was going to kill her. She said if she was hit in the face one more time, she would die. She reported she did not have any intention of harming herself but did want to die because she wanted out.
“She was reported to be in a state of emotional distress, scared and anxious, especially when in contact with any male. (Her) reluctance to directly identify Stacy Capetillo by name appeared to be out of fear he may do her further physical harm or kill her. She provided enough information to identify him without saying his name, which from my training and experience in domestic violence cases, was a protective action by her.”
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Capetillo had been released from prison on Jan. 3, 2025, after serving five and one-half years of a seven-year sentence imposed in 2019 for child endangerment in 2017 in Cleveland County, where he had also been convicted in 2014 of drug possession in 2011, 2013 and 2014 for which he was given three concurrent five-year prison terms of which he served about two years.
