Police roundup | Brain injury victim’s boyfriend charged

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Brain injury victims boyfriend charged

A 46-year-old woman was treated for bleeding from her brain at a Charleston area hospital and a Myrtle Beach man was charged with beating her, according to a police report.

Thomas Edward Cooper, 38, is charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and is being held at the Myrtle Beach Jail pending a bond hearing, according to jail records.

Cooper was arrested at 4 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of 26th Avenue South, according to an arrest report.

The charge stemmed from officers being called at 5:30 a.m. Sunday to Waccamaw Community Hospital where the victim sought treatment, police said. The victim told officers that about 7:30 p.m. Saturday she went to Coopers apartment and he accused her of cheating on him.

The victim said Cooper, her boyfriend, pushed her, punched her in the face, repeatedly choked her on the bed and held her in the apartment, according to the report.

The victim said a 62-year-old woman, who also was inside the apartment, provoked Cooper during the incident and pushed the victim down multiple times to keep her from leaving the apartment, according to the report. After about 30 minutes of being beaten, the victim told police she escaped when Cooper went to the bathroom.

The victim was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina the next day.

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