Boyfriend gives woman black eye, breaks into house during fight, police say

A woman’s boyfriend reportedly gave her a black eye and broke into her house, smashing two windows, during the course of a drawn-out altercation in Coral Springs, police said.

Laterrance Troutman, 25, of Lauderhill, was taken into custody when he showed up with bloody hands at a hospital where his girlfriend was being treated, according to a probable cause affidavit. He’s charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, domestic battery causing bodily harm and criminal mischief under $1,000.

Troutman’s girlfriend told Coral Springs police that on June 7, the two of them were driving together and she dropped him off at a Walmart, but his phone was still in her car, according to a probable cause affidavit.

She said he showed up at her house later that day and started banging on the door. She stepped outside and they argued about him getting his phone from her car, then she said he hit her in the face, giving her a black eye, according to police.

She went back inside and went to the bathroom but heard banging coming from one of the bedrooms, then when she came out, she saw Troutman inside her house, police said.

Her uncle was also home at the time and told police that after he heard banging from one of the bedroom windows, he saw a man standing near the living room. He said his niece told the man to get out and got him to leave through the back door.

The woman later walked into her bedroom and encountered Troutman outside breaking the window, she said, according to the affidavit. She saw blood on the frame, then she walked into the other bedroom and saw that window was also broken, she told police.

The woman’s uncle told her to call 911, and when police showed up, they noted the broken windows, but Troutman was gone, records show. The woman was taken to a hospital, but while she was there with officers, Troutman walked in, wearing latex gloves, police said.

The woman identified him as her boyfriend, and when police took off his gloves, they saw his hands were bloody, according to the affidavit.

Troutman told police he went to his girlfriend’s house to get his phone back, leading them to argue, but he denied punching her. He said he knocked on the bedroom windows after she went inside, but they broke because they were fragile, according to the affidavit. He said he had been allowed inside the home.

He’s being held in the North Broward Bureau jail on $11,500 bond as of June 11.