A Worthington woman is due in court in the morning on a charge of felony strangulation. She’s accused of battering a relative in Linton earlier in June.

Sherry Renee Gillespie, 53, of Worthington, was arrested in Linton by Deputy Chief Debbie McDonald of the Linton Police Department on Friday morning, June 12.

LPD officers were dispatched to a fight in northwest Linton, where Gillespie was found sitting in her car in the middle of a street and a resident said Gillespie had verbally then physically abused her.

Officer McDonald reported the resident, who was related to Gillespie, told her Gillespie had come over to her house and started verbally abusing her. She said she told her to leave several times but when Gillespie wouldn’t leave, the resident started yelling back.

The resident said Gillespie then chased her and pulled her hair, then got her down on the ground, got on top of her and was choking her so that she could not breathe. The resident’s husband pulled Gillespie off the woman.

While on the scene, Officer McDonald talked to a woman who lives close by who said she was driving down the road and saw the resident being dragged by her hair by Gillespie and saw her get thrown on the ground. The witness said she recorded the incident on her phone.

Gillespie was booked into the Greene County Jail at 11:44 a.m. Her bond was set at $1,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. Gillespie posted $100 and was released the next day.

Gillespie is scheduled to appear in court in the morning, Thursday, June 25, to face charges of strangulation, a Level 6 felony, and domestic battery, a Class A misdemeanor.