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A Crestview man faces multiple charges by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office after he became violent with his live-in girlfriend Wednesday evening, then shot out a window inside their home with a shotgun.
37-year old William “Dale” Cheatwood is accused of punching his girlfriend in the face, leaving a cut that required her to get medical attention at North Okaloosa Medical Center.
Deputies responded to their home at 3044 Sowell Drive around 6 p.m., but Cheatwood refused to come out and at one point, appeared in a window yielding a shotgun. When the OCSO Special Response Team arrived, Cheatwood came outside and pointed the weapon at an occupied SRT vehicle before retreating back into the mobile home. The Special Response Team ultimately used tear gas to successfully take him into custody.
Cheatwood is now charged with aggravated battery with bodily harm, assault on a law enforcement officer, and resisting an officer without violence. Multiple loaded weapons were found inside Cheatwood’s home.
His girlfriend says she did not believe he planned to harm her and that when Cheatwood becomes upset, he likes to shoot windows. She says he shot out the window of a hotel room in Columbus Mississippi a couple weeks ago.
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