COTTONDALE — A Jackson County man has been arrested on charges he allegedly pistol-whipped his pregnant girlfriend, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported.
John Ellis Floyd, 35, was arrested Tuesday after an altercation with his pregnant, live-in girlfriend at a residence on Phillips Road, police said.
Witnesses said Floyd allegedly threatened his girlfriend with a handgun before briefly choking her, according to deputies. Police said Floyd struck his girlfriend with the blunt end of the gun and shot a hole in the floor to prove it was loaded. The victim attempted to use her cellphone but Floyd took it away and broke it, police said.
The victims’ sibling and niece arrived at the house to assist her, but Floyd threatened them with the gun, officers said. As the victim was getting her belongings, Floyd struck her again before her sibling took the gun and the family left, officers said.
Floyd was arrested at the residence and charged with three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, felony battery, depriving a person of communication to 911, using a firearm while in commission of a felony and battery by strangulation. He was booked into the Jackson County Correctional Facility.