LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man accused of “slamming” his girlfriend to the floor in a domestic battery incident and causing her life-altering injuries wrote a song with lyrics that referenced her hospitalization, police documents said.
At around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 5, officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department were contacted by a woman who told police her daughter was in the hospital with a brain injury from a June domestic battery incident, according to an arrest report.
According to the victim’s mother, on June 1, the victim and her on-again-off-again boyfriend, identified as Curtis Brown, 25, were hanging out at her apartment with several other people and were partying and drinking until around 5 a.m.
The victim went into the bathroom when Brown began pounding on the door demanding the victim open it, the report stated.
One of the witnesses in the home told police she saw Brown “violently lift [the victim] off of the ground by her neck” after the victim opened the bathroom door before he “slammed” it shut, according to the report.
Several witnesses told police they heard fighting inside the bathroom and Brown would not let the victim leave. When Brown opened the door, he was holding her by her upper arms. The victim’s mother told police she could see handprints on the victim’s arms, the report stated.
Witnesses told police that Brown began “shaking [the victim] violently” and when the victim began to fight back, he picked her up and “slammed her to the floor” twice, causing her head to “bounce off” the floor, according to the report.
Brown then grabbed a “bucket of dirty mop water” and threw it at the victim and the rest of the people in the room before leaving the apartment, the report stated.
The victim’s mother told police that her daughter remained in the hospital since June and suffered cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, kidney failure and liver failure. Medical staff believed she was unlikely to recover, according to the report.
She told police Brown is unemployed, but writes and records music out of the residence he shares with his grandmother, the report stated.
She said he recently recorded a song dedicated to the victim, which included lyrics such as, “I can’t talk to the one I love because she’s in the ICU,” and others that referenced the fact that the victim was in the hospital on a ventilator.
Police arrested Brown on Tuesday, Aug. 6. He told police that the night of the party he found text messages from other men on the victim’s phone and said during their breakups, she would see other men. He said he questioned her about the messages and she said, “They were nothing,” the report stated.
One of the witnesses told police the victim said she wanted to break off her relationship with Brown.
Brown changed his story several times while speaking to police, but did admit to shaking the victim, throwing the mop water at her, and shoving her into a wall, according to the report. He denied strangling her.
Police took Brown to the Clark County Detention Center where he faces charges of attempted murder, domestic battery resulting in substantial bodily harm, coercion constituting domestic violence with threat or use of physical force, domestic battery by strangulation, and domestic battery.
He was held on a $100,000 bail as of Thursday. If Brown posts bail, he will be required to be on high-level electronic monitoring and stay away from the hospital where the victim is located.
His next court appearance is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 12.
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