A 23-year-old Ocala woman put up a struggle as she was being arrested for allegedly battering her 66-year-old male roommate.
Quornika Bernetta Reese, of NE 42nd Street, was charged Monday with battery on a person 65 years of age or older and resisting an officer without violence. She’s being held on $1,500 bond in the Marion County Jail and will make her next appearance in Marion County Court on June 11.
The victim told a Marion County sheriff’s deputy that Reese was acting hostile and he was afraid she was going to hurt someone, so he called 911. He said he walked to the front door to leave the apartment and Reese was standing in the way. The victim said Reese hit him on the right side of his head and attacked him. He said he didn’t recall exactly what Reese did after she hit him, but she left the residence, according to the sheriff’s office report.
The deputy observed several abrasions on the victim’s chest and stomach, two small welts on the right side of the victim’s head, near his eye, and bruising and a laceration on his upper right arm, the report said.
Reese told the deputy the victim hit her in the face, and she threw him on the couch and sat on him until he calmed down. She said she walked outside and waited for law enforcement. Reese had no visible injuries, according to the report.
When told she was being arrested, Reese said she wouldn’t go to jail. She refused to stand up and was handcuffed while sitting down. Reese was taken to the rear of the patrol car, where she said she wasn’t going to get in and dropped to the ground. She then started holding on to the vehicle so she couldn’t be secured in the back seat and slipped her left hand out of the handcuffs. Reese was re-cuffed and ultimately secured in the back of the vehicle, the report said.