HOW TO GET HELP
CALL: Domestic violence hotline at 423-755-2700, answered 24/7VISIT: The Family Justice Center at 5705 Uptain Road; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through FridaySource: Family Justice Center
Gerald Thompson, 35A few days before Halloween, a woman called 911, screaming that her husband was choking her.
The deputies who pulled up to the house in Harrison, Tenn., knew what to expect – they’d been at the home before for domestic violence.
The woman told deputies her husband, Gerald Thompson, threw her down two sets of stairs, rammed a knee into her chest, pinned her to the ground and tried to wrestle away her phone as she dialed 911.
That night, Hamilton County sheriff’s deputies arrested Thompson, 35, and charged him with aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping and interference with emergency calls.