Marion County sheriff’s deputies arrested an Ocklawaha man early Saturday morning after a woman claimed a semi-automatic handgun was held to her head.
When deputies arrived at a home in the 9700 block of SE 192nd Court shortly after midnight, the woman told them that she and 45-year-old Fredrick Mays had been at a party at her neighbor’s house. She said after leaving the party, she got into a verbal altercation with Mays when she entered her home.
The woman claimed that Mays grabbed her by the head and held her black semi-automatic pistol to the side of her head. The woman said Mays told her that “she was going to die” and “she was afraid because she knew the gun was loaded with hollow point rounds,” a sheriff’s office report states.
The woman told deputies that she quickly left the house to get away from Mays and heard two gunshots as she was running toward her neighbor’s home to get help, the report says. The neighbor told deputies she was cleaning up inside her residence when she heard the woman and Mays arguing. She said she heard two gunshots and went outside to investigate. She said the woman told her that Mays was shooting at her and had held a gun to her head, the report says.
Deputies found the loaded pistol on a chair outside the woman’s residence, as well as a spent shell casing about three feet from the gun. The hammer to the handgun was cocked back in the loaded position and a round was in the chamber, the report says.
The woman confirmed that the handgun was the one that was held to her head and advised deputies that Mays had left her home after the incident. But she told them that he would be at his mother’s house and then gave them the address.
A short time later, Mays was taken into custody. He told deputies that he got into a verbal altercation with the woman but said that was all that happened. He also said he didn’t touch the woman, the report says.
Mays was transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. He was being held on $6,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in a Marion County courtroom on Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charges.