PORT ANGELES — Jordan “Sam” Williams remained in the Clallam County jail Saturday after his Friday arrest for allegedly choking and hitting his girlfriend in a Port Angeles apartment, city police said.
Williams, 31, of Port Angeles was booked for investigation of second-degree assault-domestic violence, felony harassment and second-degree attempted murder-domestic violence.
No bond has been set.
The woman who called police was taken to the Olympic Medical Center emergency room and was later transferred to the critical care unit for throat injuries, Officer Michael Johnson said.
In hospital
She was listed in satisfactory condition at the Port Angeles hospital Friday afternoon.
Williams has not been formally charged.
He will make his preliminary appearance in Clallam County Superior Court on Monday, Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor John Troberg said.
Troberg said the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office would “seriously consider” filing an attempted murder charge based on preliminary information he received from the officer.
Police said Williams’ girlfriend barricaded herself in her bedroom after being choked to the point of “losing time.”
The woman phoned 9-1-1 at 3:39 a.m. Friday.
Dispatchers reported hearing a man yelling in the background and threatening “suicide by cop,” Johnson said in the arrest narrative.
Williams was “combative and uncooperative” as he was arrested in the apartment, Johnson said.
The woman was found in her bedroom coughing, gasping and wheezing with red marks and scratches on her neck, Johnson said.
She told police that Williams threatened to kill her, her dog, other people and the cops as he grabbed her by the throat and choked her.
“[The woman] fought to pull Williams’ hands away from her neck but Williams overpowered her efforts and continued to choke her,” Johnson wrote in the arrest narrative.
The woman told police she remembered thinking “he might actually kill me” before she broke free from Williams’ grip.
“Williams hit [the woman] in the side of the head and she had hit her head against the wall,” the officer wrote.
“[The woman] fled and attempted to barricade herself in the bedroom but Williams gave chase. A physical fight over the door ensued and [the woman] was able to shut and lock the door.”
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