“I had gotten off of work around nine, Monday night,” De’shaun said. “We walked home and he started acting crazy; saying I hadn’t texted him for three hours. I told him I was at work. He left, but when he came back, he forced his way into my house. He just started going crazy. He was just...he was just punching me in the face, punching me in the head. He took his belt buckle and started hitting me in the head—the back of the head with it, hit me in the face with it, and then he shot at me and I had my son in my hands. He tried to strangle me.”