WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was arrested after a domestic argument in which, according to a witness, the woman was hoisted by her jacket ad neck and was being strangled. This was outside a storage unit in the 900 block of Frontenac Drive about 12:50 a.m. Arrested was Phillip Edward Edmunds, 34. Police had been called by the witness, who said Edmunds held the woman against wall and was shouting and yelling at her. Edmunds told police it was the other way around — that she had grabbed him and that he never pushed her. Police didn’t see any bruisers on him. The woman police said, had neck bruises. She said she fell to the ground when Edmunds released her. Although never losing consciousness, she said , she was dizzy and couldn’t breathe.
Edmunds. Booked for assault, strangulation.