WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was arrested at a West End Kwik Trip a few hours after a domestic incident in which a woman said she was strangled almost to unconsciousness. Charles Leroy King. 26, was taken without resistance. He denied even touching the woman. Police had been called five hours earlier to the 1750 block of Kraemer Drive for a parental fight over their kids. The woman said that King grabbed her by neck with both hands choked her about a minute. “I couldn’t breathe,” she told police. When she attempted to leave, she said, King stood in door and took her phone and car keys. He grabbed her purse and hit her in the mouth, she said. Police saw bruises and went looking for King. Arrested at the Kwik Trip about closing time, King denied hitting the woman. His account: She hit him with a broom and bit him as he was leaving.
King. Booking charges: Domestic assault by strangulation, false imprisonment by intentional restraint