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Randleman, NC (WGHP) — A Randleman man allegedly strangled his girlfriend while she was having a seizure because he thought she was faking it, according to Randleman police.
At 10 p.m. Friday, Randleman police responded to a report of an assault at Randolph Hospital.
April Shultz, 32, told officials that her boyfriend Phillip Lynn Green, 40, had a history of assaulting her during her seizures because he thought she was pretending, according to police.
Shultz said Green assaulted her Thursday by choking her and hitting her with a closed fist during a seizure and then assaulted her again Friday.
Green faces charges of assault inflicting serious injury, two counts of assault by strangulation, two counts of assault on a female and two counts of habitual misdemeanor assault.
He was placed in Randolph County jail under a $75,000 secured bond.
Green faced previous charges for assaulting a female.
He was convicted in October 2017 in Randolph County and charged in November 2011 in Yadkin County.
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