A Ruston man was arrested last Friday afternoon after a woman reported he had beaten her earlier in the day.
The woman told a deputy at the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office that she and the father of two of her children, Keondre A. Davis, 24, had been in an argument. She said they had argued for a while and then Davis pushed her to the ground, punched her in the face, choked her, and pulled her hair before letting her up. The woman said Davis then pulled out a gun and said, “I’ll kill you.”
The woman told the deputy she was fearful for her life at that moment and felt Davis would shoot her. She was covered in dirt and leaves, giving the appearance she had been on the ground a short time before going to the Sheriff’s Office. The right side of her face was puffy where she said Davis had punched her.
One of the children reportedly told a deputy he saw Davis push his mother to the ground and grab her throat and hair and point a gun at her.
About 2:30 p.m. Friday, deputies located Davis at his residence and questioned him about the incident. He indicated the woman was the aggressor in the situation and that he had videos of the event. Deputies watched the videos on Davis’s phone, but none showed either party engaging in a physical altercation. In one video, however, Davis stated, “I just drug her *** all across the yard.” In a separate video, he said he would “kill her” followed by the statement that “I put my Glock in her face.”
Davis was arrested and booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for aggravated assault with a firearm and domestic abuse battery with strangulation, both felonies.
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