BY DAN HILDEBRAN
A 50-year-old Hampton man was sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years’ probation after he pleaded to threatening to kill his mother and attacking her by spitting in her face, choking her, and pushing her onto a railing on her home’s back porch.
Ronnie C. Norman pleaded to felony battery by strangulation and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.
According to an arrest report, the victim and defendant argued over a gun that the son had brought home. The victim, while on the phone with the sheriff’s office, told Norman to return the weapon. The defendant responded by spitting in the woman’s face.
“The victim advised she put her hands up in defense of herself, and Ronnie stated, ‘So you want to fight me.’ Ronnie then approached the victim and grabbed her by the throat and started choking her,” wrote Deputy Robert Malley in the report. “The victim was able to push Ronnie back, then Ronnie grabbed the victim by her face as the victim opened the back door and retreated to the porch.”
The officer added that the defendant followed his mother outside, where he pushed her into a railing, then went back inside and closed the door. When the victim re-entered the home, her son was holding the 12-gage shotgun and declared, “I ought to blow your (expletive deleted) brains out.”
