MIDDLESBORO, Ky. — Bell County deputies arrested a man Saturday night after he allegedly tried to kill his pregnant partner with an ax.
The sheriff’s department said deputies Samson Churchwell and Austin Poindexter responded to a domestic violence call at an Old Cross Road home around 11:30 p.m.
They found a woman who said Donald Shaver Jr., 55, of Middlesboro, had choked her and swung an ax at her stomach. She told deputies she was 13 weeks pregnant with his child.
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Shaver was sitting on the back of a pickup truck on the property and smelled of alcohol, according to Deputy Churchwell.
Shaver was charged with second-degree assault, first-degree strangulation, attempted murder, attempted fetal homicide and public intoxication. He was taken to the Bell County Detention Center.
