First Date Gone Sour: Elderly Man Arrested after ‘strangling 23-year-old woman
Alan Richard Schmitt, from
Virginia, was arrested at the home of the woman, who has not been named, after she claimed he attacked her following conversations on a dating website.
The woman said that she had
rejected Mr Schmitt’s advances and said she was not looking for a
relationship after realising he was older than he had claimed to be.
It was at this point he
demanded she return all of the items he had bought, including the shirt that
she was wearing.
When she refused to give the
shirt back, he apparently “grabbed her around the neck and threw her to the ground”
The woman claimed he then “got on top of her” and “proceeded to choke her, causing her to struggle to breathe.” In the altercation her necklace was also torn off.
Officer Jeremy Cumming, who
wrote the criminal complaint, said: 'I observed her necklaces were in pieces, and there were small bleeding scratches around her neck.”
Mr Schmitt claimed that
when he went to get the clothes back from the woman, she “stepped in front of him” and “pushed him in his face”.
At this point he said he lost
his balance and reached out, grabbing her neck.
He has been charged
with strangling of another causing wounds or injury and will appear in
court on 14 November.https://www.semperdiamondlodge.com/
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