SPRINGVILLE – A Springville man was arrested Friday after Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a home on Preston Lane after a report of a domestic battery
When deputies arrived they spoke to 44-year-old Corey Harper. He told police he had a “stressful day at work.” When he arrived home he was going to put together a bed with his oldest female child.
While assembling the bed, his two sons began arguing with their mother. Harper said he entered the room where the argument was taking place and yelled at his sons and told them to go to their room.
That is when the oldest female child began yelling at Harper. He said he shoved the teen causing her to fall onto the couch. Harper’s wife then stepped in between the two and he shoved her away causing her to stumble into a wall. He then told his daughter that he would not be disrespected by his children or yelled at by them.
However, both his wife and daughter said Harper “snapped”, saying Harper had shoved them “aggressively”. They also claimed he screamed at them and pinned down the daughter on the couch by putting pressure on her neck.
Harper denied choking his daughter.
Harper was arrested on charges of battery against a family member in the presence of a child under the age of 16, strangulation, and domestic battery.
