Jan 30, 2017 2 min read

WAYNESBURG – A Waynesburg man is in jail on aggravated assault charges after allegedly choking his mother over the weekend.

Police said Douglas Ryan Homrock, 20, of 140 W. Locust St., was at his mother’s residence, in the 200 block of South Richhill Street, just before 9 p.m. Saturday, when he started choking her on the couch.

The mother told police “if he hadn’t let go, he could have killed me,” the criminal complaint said.

Homrock told police he and his mother allegedly argued about a “large bag of pills” in her house, the complaint said. Then, he allegedly shoved her to the couch, choked her until she couldn’t breathe, and took her pepper spray and threatened to use it against her, police said.

Homrock told police he had sprayed the pepper spray into the bathtub.

Police said, when they arrived, the mother was across the street at a neighbor’s house and Homrock had locked the front door and barricaded the back door of the house to “stop someone from breaking in,” he allegedly told police. Police had to break the glass front door in order to enter the residence and arrest Homrock, the complaint said.

Homrock was charged with aggravated assault, two counts of simple assault, resisting arrest and harassment. He is being held in Greene County jail on $20,000 bail and his preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Feb. 7 before District Judge Glenn Bates.