A Chicago man is accused of strangling a woman and trapping her and her son in a Gary apartment to avoid detection by police.
Darrion Larron Jones, 30, of Chicago, is charged with criminal confinement with bodily injury, a Level 5 felony; confinement where victim is under 14 years old, a Level 5 felony; domestic battery committed in the presence of a child less than 16 years old, a Level 6 felony; and strangulation, a Level 6 felony.
Around 8:30 a.m. on October 29, Gary Police were dispatched to the 1800 block of West Fifth Avenue for a disturbance from the previous night when they were unable to make contact with the complainant.
A man called believing his daughter was in danger and had not been able to reach her since she texted her mother the previous evening saying she was going to die, records state.
Police contacted the woman at the residence and they observed multiple red marks and bruising with raised blood vessels around her throat, and she told police that she had an altercation with Jones, which escalated when he choked her and she wasn’t sure if she passed out.
The woman’s 7-year-old son was in the room and saw the incident. Initially, she told police that Jones was not present, but they thought the victim looked fearful and saw an unlocked door to a staircase where the roof access door was open. As police approached the door and opened it, they saw Jones standing on the roof and told him to put it hands up, but he refused. One of the officers grabbed him by the shirt and tried to pull him in the stairwell, where he was able to pull him into the stairwell with his hands behind his back.
The victim told police that around 8 or 9 p.m. on Oct. 28, she and Jones began to argue and he was angry she may be seeing someone else. When she didn’t answer a phone call from her cousin around 9:39 p.m., she said Jones flew off into a rage, convinced the caller must have been another man. He then placed his hands around her neck and started to choke her, making it hard for her to breathe.
She yelled and screamed and her son came in the room and yelled at Jones to stop, so Jones locked the bedroom door and refused to allow either of them to leave. When police arrived, Jones advised them to be quiet. She fell asleep around 3 a.m. with her son and hoped Jones would be gone when she woke up. She was awakened by the police ringing her doorbell, but Jones was still hiding in the back of her apartment building.
