A 41-year-old Mt. Pleasant Township man who barricaded himself in his home Wednesday after shooting out windows in his mother’s residence next door was ordered held in the county prison on $50,000 bond. Keith A. Yasher, of Bridgeport Road, was arraigned on charges of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, reckless endangering
The hand-scrawled sign hanging in the window of a Unity home over the weekend read, “Call 911.”
After seeing it, someone did just that.
State police arrived Saturday at the Pearl Lane home for a reported domestic assault. Inside, troopers reported finding a woman “visibly distraught” and “still bleeding from three lacerations on her face.” She said she had been assaulted and choked by her boyfriend, James O. Vickers, 45, during an argument, Trooper Daniel Grabowski wrote in court documents.
“She said she believed she was going to die due to Vickers strangling her,” Grabowski wrote.
When troopers asked Vickers to step out of the home to be questioned, Grabowski said he refused, “becoming verbally aggressive.”