Police: Man threatened family with firearm, knife; strangled mother-in-law
SHENANDOAH – A man is in Schuylkill County Prison after borough police say he threatened his wife, her brother, and mother, and assaulted the latter around midnight Sunday into Monday.
Shenandoah Police said they were called to the 100 block of East Lloyd Street for a report of a male refusing to leave a property.
As Officer Adam Sajone and Lieutenant William Moyer arrived and knocked on the door, a handgun and two ten-inch kitchen knives were thrown from the second floor of the home into the street.
The two officers made entry and spoke to several people inside.
Officers said Alejandro Duran, 40, had been in a verbal argument with his wife. His wife notified her mother, and she came to the house.
When she arrived and knocked on the door, she heard Duran chambering a round into the pistol. He then opened the door, and began arguing with her, while holding the pistol.
He went upstairs and put the gun away before returning to continue arguing with his mother-in law, at which point he grabbed her by the throat.
She told police that she was unable to breathe and was still in pain.
Shortly after his brother-in-law arrived, at which point police said Duran grabbed two large knives and made a stabbing motion at him.
When he put the knives down, his wife managed to get them and throw them out the second floor window to keep them away from him.
Duran was taken into custody and charged with strangulation, two counts of simple assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment.
He was arraigned by on-call Magisterial District Judge Stephen Bayer, and was committed to Schuylkill County Prison, unable to post $50,000 straight cash bail.
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