Updated at 1:30 p.m.: Revised to include a statement from Austin Shuffield’s attorneys.

The man accused of beating a woman in Deep Ellum in March in an attack caught on cellphone video has been indicted on four charges.

Austin Shuffield (Dallas County Sheriff's Department)

Austin Shuffield, 31, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony; obstruction or retaliation, a third-degree felony; assault causing bodily injury and unlawful carrying of a weapon, both misdemeanors.

In a written statement, his attorneys, Scott Palmer and Rebekah Perlstein, said that “while the standard for the grand jury to indict a case is quite low, we are nonetheless disappointed with the outcome.”

Shuffield was recorded punching 24-year-old L’Daijohnique Lee repeatedly during an argument early March 21.

When officers arrived at the 2800 block of Elm Street around 4:30 that morning, Lee told them she’d been driving the wrong way on Elm, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit. Shuffield, who worked at a nearby bar, got out of his truck and asked her to move because she was blocking him from getting out of a parking lot, she said.

She then pulled into the lot and Shuffield started taking pictures of her license plates, she said.

The pair started arguing after Lee told her to get away from him, and Shuffield slapped Lee’s cellphone from her hands as she tried to call 911, the affidavit says. He then hit her multiple times as she yelled for help, she said.

Video recorded by a witness shows Shuffield striking Lee at least five times.

Shuffield told police that he hit Lee in self-defense after she threatened to use pepper spray on him and that she also broke his truck’s rear windshield with a jump box. Police said they could smell “a strong scent of alcoholic beverage” while they talked to him.

The bartender was originally arrested on misdemeanor counts of assault and interference with an emergency call, but the footage of the incident led to public outcry for stronger charges. Police later upgraded the assault charge to a felony count of aggravated assault, and he was re-arrested on a weapons charge.

According to an affidavit, Shuffield had pulled a .45-caliber Glock — which police said he did not have a license to carry — out of his waistband during the altercation. He told officers he had been “in fear for his life,” according to the document.

L'Daijohnique Lee appeared with her lawyer, Lee Merritt, during a news conference March 25. (Daniel Carde / Staff Photographer)

In September, a special prosecutor was named to handle the charges against Shuffield after his attorneys alleged that the Dallas County district attorney’s office had shown bias in how it dealt with the case.

Police had initially issued an arrest warrant for Lee because she had admitted smashing Shuffield’s windshield, a move that stirred outrage among civil-rights groups. The department defended the decision, saying that its role is to investigate offenses to determine whether a law has been broken and that the district attorney decided whether to proceed with the case.

The criminal mischief charge was a felony because the damage exceeded $2,500. The DA’s office ultimately declined to prosecute the charge against Lee.

In their motion for a special prosecutor, Shuffield’s attorneys said the DA’s office “has demonstrated that their office is unable to make objective decisions on this matter by their actions of clearly intending to enforce laws only when it benefits their cases."

Palmer, one of the attorneys, later told The Dallas Morning News that he thought public pressure had swayed the office, which appeared to be seeking “as many charges as possible” against Shuffield, while declining the one against Lee.

The district attorney’s office said it disagreed with that sentiment but it did not object to the appointment of a special prosecutor.

Dallas defense attorney Russell Wilson, who previously led the DA’s public-integrity unit, presented the charges to a grand jury.