20-year-old Damien Brown was involved in a domestic incident with his girlfriend, Sabrina Gillard, at their Calumet Court apartment on August 15th. Officers arrived at Brown’s apartment and had a conversation about the incident. Brown told officers that he had found suspicious text messages inside Gillard’s phone that showed evidence of cheating. Brown stated that when he brought this to Gillard’s attention, she asked for her phone back. Brown told Gilliard he refused to return her phone. According to Brown, once Gillard reached for her phone, all he did was shove her. When officers made contact with Gillard, she told them that the argument she was having with Brown quickly turned physical. Gillard stated that during the argument pushed her onto their bed. Gillard told officers that once she got her phone back from Brown, he started following her around the apartment to get her phone back. Once Gillard returned to the bedroom, she locked the door. Brown then kicked the door down and pushed her back onto the bed. They struggled over the phone while Gillard was on the bed until Brown got it back. He then threw the phone onto the floor. Officers observed that this caused $200 worth of damage to her phone. Officers also observed swelling under Gillard’s eye and a contusion on her shoulder, so they deemed Brown the primary aggressor. Brown was taken into custody for domestic assault and vandalism.
