'Previously tried to kill': Man strangled girlfriend while her mom watched on FaceTime, police say

An Arizona antheral is down bars aft repeatedly strangling his girlfriend, including erstwhile portion helium was being watched, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Grand Canyon State.

Jesus Arturo Guerrero-Martinez, 30, stands accused of 2 counts of home unit – aggravated assault arsenic good arsenic 1 number each of kidnapping and aggravated battle with a simulated weapon, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

The suspect was arrested connected April 30, by members of the Tucson Police Department. He appeared successful tribunal aboriginal that aforesaid night.

The incidental began erstwhile the suspect accused his woman of trying to interruption his laptop, according to an interim ailment obtained by Tucson-based CBS affiliate KOLD and NBC affiliate KVOA.

The pistillate admittedly had the laptop successful her possession due to the fact that she wanted to ticker a movie, constabulary said. But, hoping to debar a fight, returned the man's device, according to the complaint.

Still the confrontation came, authorities say.

On the mode backmost to the surviving room, Guerrero-Martinez allegedly grabbed the pistillate by the pharynx and dragged her into the bedroom.

In the bedroom, the suspect threw his woman connected the bed, got connected apical of her, and past utilized his hands and forearm to strangle her a 2nd time, according to the charging document.

At immoderate point, amid the strangulation, however, the pistillate was capable to telephone her parent connected FaceTime, constabulary said. The woman's parent aboriginal told constabulary she saw Guerrero-Martinez strangling her girl connected the screen, which prompted her to thrust implicit to the apartment.

The alleged unfortunate besides told constabulary that the suspect deed her aggregate times successful the face, according to the interim complaint.

Eventually, aft assorted efforts to extricate herself from the situation, the pistillate was capable to interruption escaped and get retired of the bedroom, constabulary said. When the pistillate escaped, Guerrero-Martinez pulled retired what she thought was a weapon and allegedly threatened her.

As it turned out, the purported firearm was really conscionable a metallic flashlight that simulated a gun, according to the complaint, citing the results of a hunt warrant executed by instrumentality enforcement.

The suspect spoke up erstwhile during the probe to accidental the incidental described by the pistillate did not, successful fact, happen, constabulary claim.

In tribunal connected Thursday night, a authoritative alleged the suspect "has antecedently tried to termination the victim, has antecedently threatened to termination the victim, and has antecedently strangled the victim."

Guerrero-Martinez, for his part, kept mum portion his lawyer did the talking, according to footage of the proceeding obtained by KOLD.

The suspect is presently detained successful the Pima County Adult Detention Center connected $150,000 bond, jailhouse records show.