A man was arrested last week after police say he allegedly beat a woman so hard she could barely talk.
Despite having a history of domestic assault and a no-contact order between him and the woman, Brenden Melton, 22, was again in jail on Tuesday. This time on an aggravated domestic assault charge, as well as aggravated burglary and evading arrest.
Brenden Melton / Photo from Hamilton County Sheriff’s OfficePolice were called to a local hospital just before 4 a.m. that morning when a woman arrived with a swollen jaw and was hardly able to talk.
Melton also was at the hospital, and the woman pointed him out to police, saying he was the one who assaulted her. But Melton “immediately turned around and took off [at] a fast pace out the ER doors,” Hamilton County Court records state.
Police caught up to him and detained him after a brief struggle.