East Chicago man charged with beating woman in apartment lot
An East Chicago man is facing charges after attacking his ex-girlfriend in her Hammond apartment parking lot after she declined to have sex with him.
D’Aubrey Harrington, 28, was charged Sept. 26 with aggravated battery, criminal confinement, strangulation and three counts of domestic battery.
He hasn’t been apprehended and is ordered held on a $8,000 cash surety bond.
Hammond Police responded Sept. 8 to the city’s Hessville section.
They found the woman on the ground, with a blood-stained towel. She told cops that they recently split, but he wanted to get back together and they went on a date in Chicago that night. Back in her apartment, he got mad when she didn’t want to have sex.
The woman was frightened and started recording him around 2:30 a.m. on her cell phone. When Harrington realized it, he slapped the phone out of her hand, punched her and dragged her by the hair to the parking lot.
She followed him to the car to get her phone back.
In his car, he “strangled” her, twisting her neck as if trying to break it, the woman said. She got into the front seat and started honking the horn. He forced her out of the car, half hanging out, threw her phone out, then hit her ankle with the car on the way out.
Later, he called to apologize, saying he was drunk, the affidavit states.
The incident was caught on video. The start outside was partially obscured, but clearer for several minutes to show the woman attacked inside the car.
Gary man accused of trying to get victim to drop charges
A Gary man is facing new criminal charges days later for trying to get a woman to drop charges in a case filed last week.
Devonte Green, 28, was charged then with attacking an ex-girlfriend and pointing a gun at her toddler. He is currently behind bars at the Lake County Jail.
Now, he is charged for calling her repeatedly from Gary City Jail and Lake County Jail. His current girlfriend and a fellow inmate also called her, according to an affidavit.
“Tomorrow is going to determine everything,” Green told the woman a day before a no-contact order was issued for the victim on Sept. 24.
Later, he “did not care” he was violating it by calling her. He told the woman to not give her phone to the cops and delete everything off it.
He also told her to “kiss your kids,” implying he would kill her and take her children, the affidavit alleges.
One time, he went to her relative’s home while the woman was working and asked if he “should kidnap (the child) right now?”
“Who’s going to protect you,” Green allegedly told the woman. “I can make something happen to you in here.”
He is charged with two counts each of attempted obstruction of justice, stalking, intimidation and one misdemeanor.
Green is facing an attempted murder case for shooting a different woman’s friend after an argument.
