(Stillwater, Okla.) – Former OSU football player Tyreek D’Shaun Hill, who was dismissed from the team within hours after being charged with choking his pregnant girlfriend, was released from the Payne County Jail on $15,000 bail Friday — with an order to have no contact with the alleged victim.
Hill, 20, was charged Friday with domestic assault and battery by strangulation, a felony carrying as much as a three-year prison term and $3,000 fine on conviction, court records show. He was ordered to appear in court on Jan. 13, 2015, with an attorney.
Hill had been arrested at his Stillwater residence Thursday at 11:12 p.m., about 90 minutes after a police officer was sent to the Stillwater Medical Center emergency room on an assault investigation, court records show.
His girlfriend, 20, who said she is eight weeks’ pregnant with Hill’s child, said that they had been dating about six months, according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Kyle Bruce.
She said that “Hill threw her around like a rag doll,” on Thursday, the affidavit alleged.
When Stillwater Police Officer Justin Reedy saw her in the emergency room Thursday night, she had a mark under her left eye that was starting to turn a dark shade of red and purple, as well as a swelling injury to her upper lip, the affidavit said.
She had injuries on the left, right and front of her neck below the chin that were consistent with her statements that she was choked by Hill, the affidavit alleged.
The pregnant woman said “Hill struck her in the stomach several times,” the affidavit alleged.
She said that she was choked twice, the affidavit alleged.
“The first time, Hill was standing in front of her and had his hands together grabbing her neck,” the affidavit alleged.
She said Hill was pinning her against a wall “and banging her head against the wall as he was holding onto her neck,” the affidavit alleged.
Asked if she was unable to breathe, the woman responded “Not this time,” the affidavit alleged.
Asked by Officer Bruce what she meant, she described being thrown to the ground, grabbed by her hair, and picked up, the affidavit alleged.
“Hill was standing behind her and grabbed her around the neck using his arm,” in a headlock, the affidavit alleged.
She said she cried out to Hill, “Let me go, I can’t breathe,” the affidavit alleged.
She said she “repeated this plea several times before Hill released her from the hold he had of her neck,” the affidavit alleged.
The officer said he observed injuries to her face and neck that are consistent with her statements about being choked and struck, the affidavit alleged.
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