Teh One Who Knocks
10-12-2022, 10:50 AM
by MATTHEW JACOBSON | KUTV Staff
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SMITHFIELD, Utah (KUTV) — A Utah woman was arrested after she called police to report her husband had hit her, authorities stated.
Officers with the Smithfield Police Department responded to the domestic violence call Saturday, where the woman told them her husband struck her during a violent psychotic episode, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
The arresting officer wrote that Rachelle Clingo Walker, 35, reported her husband "had struck her on her right arm and left side." Police got a different story from the Walker's husband, though, who reportedly produced video of the incident.
The arrest report didn't specify if it was surveillance video or if he or someone else had recorded it on a mobile device.
"In the video, Rachelle is trying to bring out the victim's 'other personality' by speaking in incantations," according to the Smithfield officer's probable cause statement.
Police reported the video showed Walker holding onto her husband's arm and " ... proceeds to grip (his) arm tighter, cutting into his hand with her nails."
"The victim then takes a defensive position and tells her multiple times to stop what she is doing," the affidavit states."
Walker, who was reportedly visibly upset, is then seen getting off the bed and retrieves a pair of scissors nearby, according to the report.
"She then states that she is going to stab the victim," the officer wrote. " While the victim has taken a defensive position on top of the bed, Rachelle is holding the scissors above her head in a intimidating fashion and not letting the victim off the bed to get away."
According to the probable cause statement, there were four children asleep in the home when the incident happened, and the fighting woke them up.
Walker's husband was apparently able to leave the room without injury, after which she called the police.
After reviewing the video, police arrested Walker on suspicion of aggravated assault and aggravated unlawful detention, both third-degree felonies. She' also facing four misdemeanor charges of domestic violence in the presence of a child.
Walker was arrested late Saturday and officially booked shortly after 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
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SMITHFIELD, Utah (KUTV) — A Utah woman was arrested after she called police to report her husband had hit her, authorities stated.
Officers with the Smithfield Police Department responded to the domestic violence call Saturday, where the woman told them her husband struck her during a violent psychotic episode, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
The arresting officer wrote that Rachelle Clingo Walker, 35, reported her husband "had struck her on her right arm and left side." Police got a different story from the Walker's husband, though, who reportedly produced video of the incident.
The arrest report didn't specify if it was surveillance video or if he or someone else had recorded it on a mobile device.
"In the video, Rachelle is trying to bring out the victim's 'other personality' by speaking in incantations," according to the Smithfield officer's probable cause statement.
Police reported the video showed Walker holding onto her husband's arm and " ... proceeds to grip (his) arm tighter, cutting into his hand with her nails."
"The victim then takes a defensive position and tells her multiple times to stop what she is doing," the affidavit states."
Walker, who was reportedly visibly upset, is then seen getting off the bed and retrieves a pair of scissors nearby, according to the report.
"She then states that she is going to stab the victim," the officer wrote. " While the victim has taken a defensive position on top of the bed, Rachelle is holding the scissors above her head in a intimidating fashion and not letting the victim off the bed to get away."
According to the probable cause statement, there were four children asleep in the home when the incident happened, and the fighting woke them up.
Walker's husband was apparently able to leave the room without injury, after which she called the police.
After reviewing the video, police arrested Walker on suspicion of aggravated assault and aggravated unlawful detention, both third-degree felonies. She' also facing four misdemeanor charges of domestic violence in the presence of a child.
Walker was arrested late Saturday and officially booked shortly after 12:30 a.m. Sunday.