An Ocala man accused of attacking a woman he allegedly also battered earlier this month is behind bars in the Marion County Jail.
Marion County sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence on SW 63rd Lane Rd. in the Bahia Oaks Mobile Home Park early Sunday morning and when they arrived, the woman claimed that she was inside her home when 27-year-old Eric Jerome Colter knocked on the door and told her he had come by to pick up some of his belongings.
Colter previously had lived with the woman until he was arrested on Aug. 9 and charged with domestic battery after she checked text messages on his phone and accused him of cheating. In that incident, Colter was accused of grabbing the woman by the neck and pushing her up against a pantry while also grabbing the cord to a set of Earbuds and leaving noticeable marks on her throat, a sheriff’s office report states.
In the Sunday morning incident, the woman said she opened the door and attempted to give Colter a bag of his belongings, but he tore the bag and slammed the door, causing her to slam up against a wall and crack it. She claimed he choked her to the point where she couldn’t breathe and then threw her into a second wall, the report says.
The woman said she fell to the ground and was battling Colter when she said she was going to call law enforcement for help. She said he then fled the scene, the report says, adding that the woman had a red mark on her neck in the area where she claimed to have been choked, and the wall was damaged where she said she had been thrown into it.
Colter was then taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with domestic battery by strangulation. He also was charged with violating a pretrial release condition for the previous domestic battery charge and his bond was revoked because he went to the woman’s home and had contact with her.
Colter, who has been in the jail nine times since September 2010 on a litany of charges, was being held on no bond for the Monday incident and is due in court Oct. 1 at 9 a.m.