A Choudrant woman was arrested on numerous charges early Tuesday morning after Lincoln Parish deputies responded to a domestic call.
The Sheriff’s Office received a call Monday night from a victim reporting Shawniya Jenkins, 23, was choking her. The call disconnected and the victim called back from another number reporting Jenkins had destroyed her phone and left the scene.
A deputy spoke with the victim who said Jenkins picked her up from work and they began arguing in the car. When they arrived home, Jenkins hit and strangled her. At one point during the altercation, Jenkins allegedly brandished a loaded pistol and held it to the victim’s head, threatening to kill her.
The victim’s phone was found destroyed on the ground in the front yard.
About five hours later, a deputy spotted Jenkins’s vehicle parked in front of the residence. Deputies searched but could not locate her. After deputies left, the victim called the Sheriff’s Office reporting Jenkins was in the living room. Deputies returned and located Jenkins hiding in a bedroom closet. A pistol matching the description supplied by the victim was found on a closet shelf. The serial number on the pistol had been obliterated. Jenkins stated she had been attempting to evade arrest because she knew she was in unlawful possession of the firearm.
Jenkins was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for aggravated assault with a firearm, possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, domestic abuse of battery by strangulation, a bench warrant for failure to appear in 3rd District Court, and a bench warrant for most at City Court for failure to appear.
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