A Umatilla man was arrested early Tuesday after Marion County deputies watched surveillance footage of him knocking a woman holding her handicapped child to the ground.
Deputies were called to a home on 197th Court in Umatilla after the woman took refuge at a friend’s house. She told deputies that she got into an argument with 39-year-old Luke Harice Wilson Sunday and went to stay with a friend for the night. She said she returned to her home on SE 155th Street on Monday, brought her children inside and then quickly exited the home to avoid another altercation, a sheriff’s office report states.
But the woman said Wilson followed her outside as she walked toward her vehicle and “began to yell and scream.” She said she asked him to stop and attempted to get into the driver’s side of her car.
The woman said Wilson then struck her on the left side of her head with an open hand. She said she went back inside the house to get her handicapped child. And while holding the child on the porch, the woman said, Wilson hit her multiple times in the area around her head with such force that it knocked her and the child to the ground, the report says.
After watching video surveillance of the incident at the woman’s car and on the front porch, deputies took Wilson into custody. He was transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with felony domestic battery.
Wilson, who has spent time in the Marion County Jail eight times since April 2000, is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 21 at 9 a.m.