A Morgan Hill man was arrested for allegedly choking and punching his girlfriend, sending her to the hospital with multiple injuries including cuts and bruises throughout her face and head, a bloody nose and bloody lip.
Someone called police about 6 p.m. Friday to report a man standing outside a vehicle near Monterey Road and Central Avenue “screaming at a female” adult, according to Morgan Hill police Sgt. Troy Hoefling.
Police arrived and saw the man and woman at the scene. Officers determined the 33-year-old Gilroy woman had been strangled, punched in the head and face, and had been dragged on the ground, Hoefling said.
The victim’s alleged attacker, Moises Flores, 36 of Morgan Hill, was arrested and booked into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, domestic violence, false imprisonment and assault with a deadly weapon likely to produce great bodily harm, Hoefling said.
Flores and the victim are boyfriend and girlfriend, Hoefling said.
Hoefling described each of the victim’s injuries as “serious in and of itself,” but the fact that she suffered so many injuries at one time is “horrible.”
The woman suffered facial bruising in several places, complaint of pain to her head, redness and blood on her scalp, redness and swelling to her neck and “multiple abrasions” including to her shoulder, back, pelvis and knee, Hoefling said.
Flores is also a parolee, Hoefling said.
