LIBERTY — Liberty police are looking for a Sharon, Pa., man accused of strangling his girlfriend and fleeing early Wednesday morning.

Warrants were filed for Harold Hooten, 20, for misdemeanor charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and domestic violence and felony charges of strangulation, robbery and disrupting public services.

According to a police report, officers were called to a Townsend Avenue residence around 5 p.m. in reference to an unwanted person, with dispatchers saying the caller said, “I want them out of my house.” Dispatchers heard a man and woman fighting over the phone until the call disconnected.

An officer made contact with a woman standing in the parking lot and crying. The report states the woman said her boyfriend, Hooten, had physically assaulted her, choked her and had taken her cellphone and vehicle.

The officer noted in his report the woman had multiple scratch marks on both sides of her face, but declined medical treatment.

With two more officers arriving, the woman said she returned from work around 11 p.m. and had gone to sleep, but when Hooten arrived back at the residence, he allegedly kicked her off the bed. The woman said Hooten had “gone through her phone” and found something he didn’t like, and she left the residence to defuse the situation and Hooten left to calm down and get air, according to the report.

The woman told officers that she returned home and picked Hooten up from walking the neighborhood, but they continued to argue and Hooten began throwing rocks at her vehicle in the parking lot.

The report states that they continued arguing upon returning to the apartment, and the woman said Hooten began slapping her in the face, choked her and bit her left shoulder — showing the officers a round puncture mark that was red and purple in color.

The report states the woman tried leaving with some of her clothes and Hooten began throwing stones at her in the apartment complex’s hallway. She detailed to officers how she was choked, saying Hooten had placed both hands around her neck and pinned her to the wall, telling her he was going to kill her, and using enough force to make her unable to breathe, according to the report.

The report states the woman started hitting Hooten in self-defense, and he slapped her phone out of her hands upon realizing she had called 911. Hooten took the phone and the keys to her vehicle, a black 2021 Nissan Altima, and drove off.

The woman told officers she wished to pursue criminal charges against Hooten, telling officers that similar incidents had been occurring every few months throughout the last four years of their relationship, according to the report.

The report states Hooten was on probation from a case in Pennsylvania. Officers gave the woman a courtesy transport to a family member’s residence after documenting her injuries.

The officer noted in the report that they made contact with Hooten at a Dollar General hours before the incident, observing him crouching behind a pillar by the front door with his hood up. He had told officers he was waiting for his girlfriend to get off work and pick him up, and that he didn’t have a key to their apartment complex. He then asked officers for a courtesy ride to the building, adding that his girlfriend was on her way home.