BEDFORD – A Bedford man was arrested after Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a home on Saturday, July 13, just after 10 a.m. after dispatch received a call receiving just noise in the background from a home in the 300 block of Old US 50. The dispatcher believed a domestic altercation was taking place.
Deputies Atchison and Duprey responded. When they arrived, they spoke to 66-year-old Stanley Watterson, who they found on the front porch. Someone was yelling from inside the home.
Watterson said there was an argument between him and the female.
Watterson said when the female got home, she was intoxicated and began arguing with him. He said when she walked up the stairs, she fell and injured herself.
The officer announced his presence and entered the home. When he opened the door, the female yelled, “No, no, he will kill me.”
The woman told police Watterson had beat her with a stick and busted her head open.
The woman had large marks on her left arm, a small cut on her forehead, and a large bump on the back of her head. The woman said Watterson had beaten her “all night.”
She claimed Watterson had pointed a crossbow at her at least three times during arguments and placed a pillow over her face.
An ambulance was called to the scene to assess the woman’s injuries. She was transported to IU Health Bedford Hospital for treatment.
She repeatedly requested that Watterson not be arrested and was scared if he did; she didn’t know what he would do to her. She refused to sign a battery affidavit.
Watterson told deputies he had been in a relationship with the woman for over two years, but the arguments had worsened over the last few months, and things have gotten physical.
Watterson was arrested on a charge of domestic battery causing moderate injuries and transported to the Lawrence County Jail.
