Police: Bloody Facebook scene is result of an intoxicated man punching window

October 6, 2017 2:16 AM

Site staff,

Posted: October 6, 2017 2:16 AM

Updated: December 24, 2019 6:18 AM

by Site staff

Police: Bloody Facebook scene is result of an intoxicated man punching window

POYNETTE, Wis. — The bloody scene that circulated Facebook Sep. 25, was the result of 33-year-old Kyle D. Tomlinson punching a glass window, according to a police report.

Photos that were posted on Facebook prompted a number of calls to Columbia County dispatch that a homicide had taken place. That was not the case, but deputies did respond to a disorderly conduct call for a disturbance and arrested Tomlinson, who was bleeding from his hand, police said.

The call came from Tomlinson’s friend, Jason A. Terhall, who reported he was attacked by an intoxicated Tomlinson, who then punched a window. Terhall later told officers that Tomlinson had attempted to strangle him, according to police.

When officers arrived on the scene, they could hear Tomlinson yelling loudly and incoherently from inside the building at Highway 51 in Poynette. Officers asked Terhall about the noise, and he claimed that Tomlinson was making a scene because he declined his “homosexual” advances, according to the report.

Officers entered the residence and found Tomlinson wearing only underwear and lying on the floor. There were large amounts of blood in the room and covering Tomlinson, according to the report.

Tomlinson refused to calm down for the officer, or to wrap the wound with a towel. Eventually he walked toward the front of the house, pushed open a screen on one of the front windows and crawled out the window onto the the front deck of the residence. He then climbed over the front deck railing of the house a, rolled off and fell to the ground. After the fall he ran from the residence, according to the report.

The officer caught up to him when he fell in a nearby field. Officers stayed with Tomlinson when he went with paramedics, because he would not cooperate with paramedics, according to the report.

Columbia County sheriff’s officials confirmed that Tomlinson of Poynette was arrested on charges of strangulation, battery, disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property, possession of drug paraphernalia, felony bail jumping and resisting/obstructing an officer after an incident.