LOGAN COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A West Virginia man faces charges after allegedly attacking a woman and threatening to kill her.
According to State Police, troopers responded to a home in the Whitman area of Logan County for a domestic call. When they arrived, the victim said Rickey Shepherd attacked her when she went to get water. Shepherd and the victim had been out to dinner and had alcoholic drinks.
Once they returned home, Shepherd threw the television remote at the television. Then he grabbed the victim by the neck with his hand and started choking her. Â The victim escaped to her neighbor’s house but said she may have passed out.
Troopers charged Shepherd with domestic battery, domestic assault, and strangulation. He is being held in jail under a 50,000 dollar bond.