Amid questions Monday whether he had in fact been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for two prospects, a police report obtained by Yahoo Sports was published indicating Cincinnati Reds’ heat-throwing reliever (for now) Aroldis Chapman was involved in what can only be labeled as a domestic dispute incident on October 30.
The report is below, preceded in the digital document by two previous incident reports also from the Davie Police Department in Davie, Florida. The first report appears to be a noise complaint from 2010, and the second reports a police response on Oct. 5, 2015 to concerns of a break-in, which turned out to be the mother to Chapman’s child returning to his residence to retrieve possessions following a break-up.
The third incident report profiles a domestic dispute between Aroldis Chapman and a girlfriend in question. While each party offers a conflicting narrative of the dispute, Davie Police acknowledge Chapman suffered a laceration on his right hand after punching a passenger window in his Land Rover and later discharged eight shots from a handgun in his own garage. Chapman’s “girlfriend” alleges he put his hands around her throat during the altercation, which reportedly stemmed from a message Chapman discovered on her cell phone.
Here’s a summary of the incident from both sides per Yahoo Sports:
When police arrived at his house, they established a perimeter around it and called Aroldis Chapman’s phone eight times, each of which kicked to voicemail, according to the report. Eventually, Chapman exited the front of the house and spoke with police, the report said
[Chapman] admitted to firing eight shots with a handgun, seven of which went into a concrete wall inside his garage and the eighth of which went through a window into an open field, following a party with friends and family, according to the police report.
Police interviewed multiple people, including Chapman, Chapman’s girlfriend, her brother and a man identified as Chapman’s driver, according to the report. No arrests were made “due to conflicting stories and a lack of cooperation from all parties involved,” the report said.
The incident started, Chapman’s girlfriend told police, after she went into a bathroom of Chapman’s 10,000-square-foot-plus house and “found something in his phone that she did not like,” according to the report. Chapman, his girlfriend told police, then took the phone from her, the report said. They went to the movie theater inside of Chapman’s home, where “he had pushed her against the wall,” according to the report, and “that Chapman had ‘choked’ her by placing his hands around her neck, but did not prevent her from breathing at any time.” Police did not observe “injuries or even redness anywhere on her neck or chest,” the report said.
Chapman’s girlfriend told police her brother “came into the theater and separated them,” the report said. Chapman’s girlfriend told police she “ran outside because she was scared for her and her daughter,” according to the report. Her daughter was 4 months old, according to the report. While it is unclear whether the child is Chapman’s, he told police after a previous incident that they “had a child in common,” according to a police report.
In Chapman’s version of the story, he told police he used his index and middle fingers and “poked his girlfriend on the left shoulder and told her not to talk to him like that,” according to the report. He said his girlfriend fell to floor and started yelling, the report said. Chapman told police the girlfriend’s brother came into the room and pushed Chapman to the ground, according to the report. Friends and family, Chapman told police, separated the two so they wouldn’t fight, the report said.
Chapman’s driver said that after the fight over the phone, Chapman’s girlfriend “returned to the theater room, charging at Chapman and tackled him,” according to the police report. She denied that version of the incident to police, the report said. When police later approached the driver to talk about his story, he declined to speak with them again, according to the report.
After exiting the house, Chapman’s girlfriend ran to the other side, hid behind bushes and contacted law-enforcement officials, according to the report. Chapman’s girlfriend told police her infant child remained inside the house at the time, the report said.
Chapman told police he wanted to drive away but friends wouldn’t let him, according to the police report. He entered the passenger’s-side door of his Land Rover, punched the window and cut his left pinkie knuckle, the report said. Chapman then said he retrieved the handgun from the glove compartment and locked himself in the garage alone. “He then shot several shots inside the garage and threw his pistol away inside the garage,” the report said. Chapman’s driver moved the gun from the garage back into another vehicle, a Cadillac Escalade, according to the report.
Chapman said friends took him into a room and locked the door, according to the police report. When police arrived, others exited the house, the report said. Chapman, according to the report, was the last one out.
On Nov. 3, four days after the incident, police spoke with Assistant State Attorney Marcie Zaccor, who said “due to conflicting stories, no cooperating witnesses, and no physical injuries, there is insufficient evidence to charge Mr. Chapman with simple battery,” according to the report.
Whatever happened, you’ve got to be a special type to punch out a car window and unload a handgun because you’re angry with a situation, I know that much.
We’ll keep you updated with the pending MLB investigation into the matter.
[via Yahoo Sports]