DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - A Davenport man has pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend, Melissa Lewis, who died from her injuries days after the attack.
The Quad-City Times reports (https://bit.ly/2m3qRuJ ) that 56-year-old Thomas James Lopez pleaded guilty Wednesday in Scott County District Court to two counts of willful injury causing serious injury and domestic abuse assault-strangulation with injury. If convicted he faces up to 25 years in prison.
Davenport police say Lopez assaulted 37-year-old Melissa Lewis at their home on Aug. 31. According to an affidavit, Lopez slapped, choked and pushed her, and when he pushed her for the fourth time, she fell back and hit her head on a window sill. She died Sept. 4.
Lopez will be sentenced May 4.
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This story has been corrected to show that if convicted, Lopez faces up to 25 years in prison, not up to 15 years.
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Information from: Quad-City Times, https://www.qctimes.com
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