HELTONVILLE – A Heltonville man was arrested on Wednesday, May 8th, after Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputies say he injured a woman during a domestic dispute in the 4000 block of Bartlettsville Road.
Around 10:36 a.m., a woman came to the Sheriff’s Department to report that she was getting ready to leave for work when her son confronted her.
The woman told Deputy Anthony Pope she woke around midnight to prepare for work. She said she turned on the news, prepared some coffee, and smoked a cigarette, as she does every morning. When she went to turn on the television, she saw it on, but no one was in the room, so she turned the channel to the news and sat on the couch. That is when 24-year-old Nolan McCoy entered the room, got in her face, grabbed her by her hair, screamed in her ear, and shook her head. He then covered his hand with a shirt and punched her in the right side of the face. He also grabbed her by the arms and backed her into the wall, stepped on her feet so she couldn’t get away, and started shaking her.
The woman had bruising on both arms and her ankle.
The woman left home and went to her daughter’s. The daughter then took her mom to the Sheriff’s Department.
When asked if this was the first time her son had hurt her, the woman said no. She says her son yells at her every day, and it turns physical at least once a week.
Officers responded to the home on Barrtlettsville Road. The victim followed. She gave officers keys to the house to make an easy entrance. Officers located McCoy, and he was detained without incident.
When asked if he knew why he was being arrested, he stated, “Mom called the police on me because I got carried away.” McCoy then stated he screams too much. He denied hitting his mother but did admit he had “blocked her path.” When asked if he grabbed his mom, he said, “A little bit, but he was trying not to go too hard.”
He denied punching his mother but admitted to grabbing his mother by her hair.
McCoy was arrested on a charge of domestic battery causing moderate bodily injury and transported to jail.
