A 25-year-old Turon man jailed back on April 2, after an domestic altercation with a woman in that city was back in court Wednesday morning for the reading of charges that now includes a more serious charge.
Tyler Truhlar is now charged with attempted 2nd degree murder or in the alternative aggravated battery and a final count of aggravated burglary. The attempted murder charge is a level three person felony with a sentencing range of 55 to 247-months in prison.
As we have been telling you, the alleged victim said she had told Truhlar that she didn’t want him to come over, but he kicked in her front door where they began arguing and he then allegedly punched her several times, striking her on the left side of her face. He also allegedly struck her in the nose. He then allegedly started choking her and the victim says she hit him to get away. She says she ran outside to call 911 and he followed her and started calling her names and threatening to kill her, saying he didn’t care if he was going to jail. She says at some point, he kicked her in the ribs, pulled her hair and slammed the left side of her head into the pavement several times.
In court, he questioned the attempted murder charge saying that wasn’t what he was arrested on, but Magistrate Judge Randy McEwen told him that those charges at the time of the arrest are only possible charges and that the state decides what formal charges will be filed.
Truhlar is currently free on a 6-thousand, 750 dollar bond and with the formal charges filed, his case will move to a waiver-status docket in front Judge McEwen on May 6.