Man From Concord Arrested On Strangulation, Assault, And Obstructing Report Of A Crime Charges

CONCORD, NH — Assault charges against a man from Concord accused of strangling a woman at the Pembroke Road Apartments in November have been boundover to superior court.

Gilbert Uwitonze, 29, of Pembroke Road in Concord, was arrested on Nov. 15, 2025, on second-degree assault-strangulation and second-degree assault-domestic violence-strangulation charges, both felonies, as well as simple assault, domestic violence-simple assault, domestic violence-obstructing report of a crime or injury, and obstructing report of a crime or injury charges.

Around 8:15 a.m. on Nov. 15, police were sent to a report of a possible domestic at the Pembroke Road Apartments on Pembroke Road. A tenant reported a woman known to her had come to her apartment seeking assistance because her husband had taken her phone, according to the report. The man fled the area, according to dispatch.

The first arriving officer reported the victim had “a visible, fresh-looking scratch on her chest, and asked her if she was involved in a fight. She replied, “No English, Swahili,” the officer wrote, and pointed to Uwitonze, leaving the parking lot in a Nissan Rogue, the affidavit stated.

“That’s my husband,” she reportedly told the officer.

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The officer went out to the SUV and flagged down the driver. He, too, was asked if he was involved in an altercation, and “he told me he needed a Swahili interpreter,” the report stated.

Another officer arrived to assist, and the first officer was able to get an interpreter on the phone. Uwitonze, via the translator, claimed he was asleep in their apartment when his wife came home, went to their room, called him a “dog,” and “grabbed his ‘sex’ and twisted it,” the affidavit said. The officer asked for clarification, and Uwitonze said there was no sex or sexual acts arising from the incident, the report said. He also claimed she slapped him in the face, so he left the apartment, the officer wrote.

When asked how the woman sustained the chest wound, Uwitonze was accused of saying she was drunk and may have fallen down. Uwitonze’s nails were inspected, but the officer saw no blood under them. He also pointed to his inner upper lip, but the officer reported seeing no blood or cuts, the report said.

Concord fire and rescue teams were called to the apartment complex and transported the victim to the hospital. The second officer told the reporting officer, after speaking through the interpreter “briefly,” the victim accused Uwitonze of choking her.

When asked, Uwitonze denied the accusation, the officer wrote.

A third officer interviewed the victim again through an interpreter for more details and learned Uwitonze made sexual advances, which she denied, around 1 a.m. that morning, the affidavit stated. The victim claimed Uwitonze “threw her on the floor, struck her, and choked her, with both hands,” the office wrote. The victim had breathing that was impeded, clear and visible choke marks on her neck, and bloodshot eyes, the report stated.

The victim reportedly left the apartment but came back later to call 911, but she accused Uwitonze of stealing her phone. That is when she fled the apartment, the officer wrote.

The officer spoke to the neighbor who called 911 for the victim, and they reported the victim said her husband hit her and stole her phone, the report stated. The victim then used the neighbor’s cellphone to call 911 and left the apartment.

The reporting officer reinterviewed Uwitonze and asked about the phone, and he reportedly said he had his own phone. When asked about the assault, he denied harming her, the affidavit said.

The apartment, the officer said, had two adults and nine children, and “they all claimed they were asleep all night,” the report stated.

Uwitonze was arrested and held without bail. He was arraigned on the misdemeanor charges on Nov. 17 and a bail hearing was held on Nov. 26, where he was detained. He was granted a public defender, the case was boundover to Merrimack County Superior Court, and he was arraigned on the felony charges on Dec. 10.

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