Nashville Man Accused Of Beating Woman With Milk Crate, TV With Skillet

NASHVILLE, TN — Paranoid from drugs and alcohol, a 38-year-old Nashville man violently beat and choked a woman in her apartment during a tirade in which he also attacked a television with a skillet, according to Metro Police.

Officers arrested Montony Retic Thursday for the January incident and charged him with a slew of crimes, ranging from aggravated assault and kidnapping to interference with a 911 call.

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Retic and his alleged victim were drinking and doing drugs in the woman's Buena Vista Pike apartment back in January, she told police. Suddenly, Retic became paranoid and accused the woman of stealing from him, and then began "vandalizing her walls by punching them and damaging her television with a skillet," according to a police report.

The woman said Retic punched her, beat her with a rod, threw her on a couch and began to choke her. After dragging her to the bedroom, Retic continued the assault, hitting the woman with a milk crate, according to the affidavit.

He then forced the woman in a closet, holding her there for some time, before dragging her out of the closet, only to bind her with an extension cord and whip her with another extension cord, she told police. Then, just as suddenly as he began, Retic realized what he was doing and untied the woman, who then fled the apartment to look for help as Retic had taken her cell phone.

Retic is charged with especially aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated assault, interfering with an emergency call and vandalism and is being held on a $202,000 bond.

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