She said he grabbed her throat and tried to strangle her. He said she grabbed his throat and squeezed. After talking to both parties and taking photographs of injuries, a deputy arrested a Lyons man on a charge of felony strangulation.

Tyler Ernest Lee Eads, 24, Lyons, was arrested by Deputy Zachary Goad of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department early last Thursday, May 13, after Deputy Goad was dispatched to a domestic in Lyons.

After 1 a.m. last Thursday, a woman called 911 to report she had been strangled by her boyfriend, Tyler Eads, at their residence on East Broad Street in Lyons. When Deputy Goad met with the woman and her mother at the Linton Police Department, the woman said after she got off work, Eads asked her to follow him home from Linton because he’d been drinking. On the way, she said he was all over the road so she called him and asked him to stop and park his truck but he replied with an expletive and hung up on her. After they were home, she began gathering some things and told Eads she did not want to be with him anymore.

The woman alleged Eads then ripped clothes she was gathering from her arms, pushed her against a wall, then knocked her down and strangled her with both hands around her throat. She struggled and got free, Eads called a family member to pick him up and he left. She also left.

Deputy Goad took photographs of her injuries including visible signs of injury on her throat area and bruising on the inside of an upper arm.

Later when Deputy Goad and LPD Officer Janzen Franklin were at the residence, they took photographs of a busted beer can and damage to a door allegedly damaged during the altercation.

When Eads was located and taken into custody, he said the woman had started the altercation, had grabbed him and ripped him backwards, and took his phone, pushed him against the door. He claimed he had grabbed her hands in a non-aggressive manner, took his phone back and made a call. He alleged the woman had grabbed him by the throat, squeezed and pushed him into a wall.

Deputy Goad said there was some redness around his throat and he took photographs.

Eads was booked into the Greene County Jail at 4:20 a.m. He has since posted bond and been released.

Eads is facing charges of:

• Strangulation, a Level 6 felony, and

• Domestic battery, a Class A misdemeanor.

He is scheduled to be in Greene Superior Court for an initial hearing next Monday, May 24.