East Ridge police have issued arrest warrants for a validated gang member after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend.
According to a police report, Malcolm Twilley is being sought on charges of Aggravated Domestic Assault, False Imprisonment and Evading Arrest after an incident last week in the 1500 block of Waterhouse Street.
Police were dispatched to Waterhouse on a disorder involving a black man and woman. The report states that when police arrived in the area they located Twilley walking toward Ringgold Road. Just after encountering Twilley, officers saw a black woman with a white t-shirt standing in the roadway several houses south of their location. The woman’s shirt was covered in what appeared to be blood. According to the report, officers asked Twilley who the woman was and he told them it was his girlfriend.
Police made contact with the woman, who was bleeding from the mouth and a crying. Her shirt and hands were covered in blood, according to the police report. The woman told police that Twilley punched her several times in the face. The report states that while the woman was talking with police she was near collapse. Paramedics were immediately called.
Malcolm Twilley
According to the report, while police were tending to the woman, information was relayed to another officer who had detained Twilley a short distance away. When the officer asked Twilley to place his hands behind his back to be handcuffed, Twilley took off on foot through a nearby business parking lot and vanished.
The report states that police went to Parkridge East Hospital to speak with the woman who had allegedly been beaten by Twilley. The woman told investigators that Twilley came to her house demanding to see her phone. She refused and asked him to leave. This enraged Twilley who punched the woman in the head and face. The report states that the woman picked up a knife to protect herself and she ran out the front door.
According to the report, Twilley caught the woman and overpowered her. She told police that she grabbed onto a neighbor’s grill and began screaming for help. Twilley, the woman said, dragged her back into the house and bound her ankles together with a phone cord while she was seated on a couch. The woman told police that Twilley then began heating up a clothes iron and he was intent on burning her with the appliance.
The woman told officers that she was able to use the knife that she had to cut the phone cord around her ankles, and told Twilley that the “cops were there.” When Twilley went to check for a police presence, she ran out the back door and was pursued by Twilley. The woman said she continued to yell in an attempt to draw attention to herself and keep Twilley at bay.
According to the report, the woman was treated at the hospital for her injuries. Officers took the woman back to her home where they saw the iron still plugged into a socket and the phone cord that was used to bind her ankles near the couch. The woman refused to be taken to a shelter, the report states.
The report states that Twilley is a validated Tree Top Piru gang member and a convicted felon who was recently released from prison. ERPD requested Chattanooga police to check Twilley’s residence in Chattanooga. He was not able to be located.
