Inside the Police Reports: Aggravated Assault by Wine Bottle

Off Antidepressants, But Back on Alcohol: A domestic case of assault was reported to Gwinnett police last Sunday involving a man and his live-in girlfriend. 

The 91-year-old man, who had blood all over him and a towel wrapped around his left hand, told police that his girlfriend, 44, had not taken her antidepressants recently and started drinking earlier that day. At one point in the evening, she asked to speak with him, which only led to her yelling and screaming, "That [man] ruined her life." She continued to say that she was depressed, it was his fault, and if he left her, she would commit suicide. During the incident, she picked up an empty wine bottle and and smacked his hand and the back of the neck, breaking the bottle. When he tried defending himself, she cut his hand.

Inside the home, Gwinnett officers found the girlfriend lying on her bed with her right hand in a cup, which also had a lot of blood. When asked if she was OK, she only said that her boyfriend came after her. The girlfriend, 44, began slurring her side of the story to police, saying that she hit her boyfriend with the bottle when he backed her into a corner. She said her pinky finger was cut from holding the broken bottle.

The woman admitted that she had stopped taking her medication and that she had been drinking all day.

The girlfriend's daughter, 20, was interviewed as a witness to the story and backed up the boyfriend's side, saying that her mom was threatening him.

In the report, the officer wrote, "Due to the nature of the defensive wounds on [the boyfriend]'s hands, the written testimony of [the daughter and the boyfriend], the evidence at the scene, I placed [the girlfriend] under arrest for aggravated assault."

The story doesn't stop there: After police handcuffed the woman, she began ripping off the bandages EMS personnel had wrapped around her finger to stop the bleeding. EMS workers taped the bandage and told her that she would need stitches, which prompted her to repeatedly state that she would not allow it and would rip the stitches out.

As she was led to the police car, she continued to tell her boyfriend that everything was "his fault." She arrived at the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville and refused treatment from the medical staff. Her pinky was not treated, and she was transported to jail.

Home Invasion: Also on Sunday, a young man called police to report an incident that had just occurred in his home. The man, 24, told Gwinnett police that an unknown man knocked on his door and barged into his house with another two to five other males, who beat him with a gun and a lamp and left.

During the beating, one of the males fired the gun, whose bullet went through a painting on the wall. The suspects asked the man for "anything of value," but he told them that nothing valuable was in the home, so they left.

The best description the victim was able to give police about the suspects were just that there was a "mix of black and white males." The victim said he doesn't believe they took anything, and police reported that the house appeared clean except for the area where the assault took place. Police observed that his mother's room probably had an attempted break-in because it looked like the suspects tried to kick open the locked door but were unsuccessful.

Gamer Thieves: A loss prevention worker at the Snellville Walmart reported a shoplifter who stole three Xbox games straight from the shelves. The suspect, 22, grabbed the games, walked to the toys department, took the discs out of their packaging and walked through all points of sale without paying for them.

The total cost for the items stolen is $63.47. He was arrested for misdemeanor shoplifting.