WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a Winona man after a woman friend reported he threatened to kill her and then straddled her on a bed and strangled her. She couldn’t breathe, she said. The woman told police that she broke away and called 911 from a neighbor’s house. Officers found Christopher Steven Marcum, 34, outside in a garage. He acknowledged an argument but denied anything physical, police said. Police reported, however, that the woman had marks on her throat This was about 9 p.m in the 700 bock of East Ninth Street.

Marcum. Booked for domestic assault by strangulation, a felony. Also misdemeanor domestic assault.