He Told Rockdale Officer 'To Shoot Him To End It All': Complaint
ROCKDALE — Rockdale might be a small town of only 2,000 citizens, but the Rockdale Police Department continues to find itself busy investigating the same types of violent crime that happen in nearby Joliet. Last week, Rockdale officers took 26-year-old Rosemont resident Sean Armstrong to the Will County Jail in connection with allegations Armstrong tried to strangle a 20-year-old Rockdale woman during a violent domestic quarrel, according to prosecutors.
“The nature and circumstance of the offense are severe,” Will County prosecutors informed one of the judges in their petition to deny pretrial release for Armstrong. “The defendant strangled (his victim) and struck her about the head and body, causing visible injury. It took the victim’s uncle and the victim’s sister to help stop the attack on (her). Further, strangulation is among the most severe types of nonfatal attacks.
“The act of strangulation itself is impeding air flow and or blood flow of the victim.”
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The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office of Jim Glasgow went ahead and charged Armstrong with aggravated domestic battery and four counts of domestic battery.
According to prosecutors, the following events led Rockdale police to arrest Armstrong last Wednesday, July 17:
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While most of the community was still asleep, at 5:30 a.m., Rockdale officer Ewa Biskup was sent to one of the apartments in the 200 block of Meadow Avenue for a domestic disturbance. A man let the officer inside his residence. He is the uncle of the 20-year-old woman who is the domestic violence victim. She also lives at her uncle’s residence, along with Armstrong and her sister.
The victim’s uncle notified the Rockdale officer that his niece and Armstrong were in his kitchen fighting; the officer saw Armstrong on his back on the kitchen floor, trying to catch his breath, while the victim was hovering over him, crying. The kitchen was in disarray, with tables and chairs overturned, prosecutors outlined.
“Sean related multiple times that he wanted Officer Biskup to shoot him to end it all, and refused to answer any questions. Sean also related that he needed an ambulance,” prosecutors declared.
The victim told Rockdale’s officer that her 17-year-old sister was visiting from Florida and they were hanging out and drinking and when everyone went to bed, she and Armstrong began to argue in their bedroom.
The 20-year-old victim thought that Armstrong was getting jealous because her attention was more on her sister than on him. Armstrong grabbed the 20-year-old woman’s hair, slammed her head into the wall multiple times and started punching her several times in the face with a closed fist, prosecutors advised.
The victim told Rockdale police she was not able to breathe, and eventually, she retreated to the kitchen where Armstrong continued punching her in the head and body while still choking her, court documents reflect.
At that point, the victim’s uncle and the victim’s teen-age sister woke up and ran to the kitchen and saw Armstrong punching the 20-year-old woman in the face.
At that moment, Armstrong pushed the victim’s uncle into the washing machine two times. The victim and her sister jumped on Armstrong’s back and wrapped their arms around him. Armstrong fell to the floor and that’s about when Rockdale’s police officer arrived at the emergency, the petition to deny pretrial release showed.
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Armstrong’s victim suffered a bruise above her left eye, scratches and red marks to her left cheek, a swollen upper lip, red marks and bruises to her neck and a left elbow laceration.
“This defendant’s social history indicates that he is violent, abusive or assaultive in nature,” Will County prosecutors outlined.
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