Photo: KY3.com
Earlier this week, police in Springfield, Missouri, arrested a man after he pushed his girlfriend out of his speeding truck and then fled the scene. The girlfriend is now speaking in his defense.
KY3 reports that Melvin Townes has been charged with domestic assault, leaving the scene of an accident, and endangering the welfare of a child. His victim, Alexis Perkins, is in the hospital, recovering from the injuries she sustained when she was thrown out of Townes’ 2018 silver Ford 150.
While police have no doubt that Townes was responsible for Perkins’ fall, which seems to be confirmed by the fact that he drove away, leaving her lying there, she is speaking in his defense. She tells the same media outlet that she wasn’t pushed out, but rather fell out on her own during a panic attack.
Perkins says she called Townes to come pick herself and their 15-month daughter up. One the ride, the girl was crying in the carseat, so she climbed over the passenger seat to give her her pacifier. That’s when she had a panic attack.
“Sometimes I black out in my panic attacks,” she says. “So I just opened the door and I guess I tried to step out and it didn't work.”
She doesn’t have an explanation for why her boyfriend didn’t stop the car and she had to come out of her blackout and see strangers looking down on her. However, she insists he would never lay a hand on her.
“This morning I finally got on my phone,” she continues. “I was on Facebook and I had a bunch of people telling me that he pushed me out, and he did this to my face when nobody had seen me. So it just really upset me because it added more problems for me when it came to my daughter. Look at my face, this is all from the ground, you know.”
Townes’ family is also speaking up on his behalf, insisting he’s a nice guy who would never be violent to anyone. They don’t have an explanation for his fleeing the scene, either. Or for his prior conviction on domestic violence.
While police have no doubt that Townes was responsible for Perkins’ fall, which seems to be confirmed by the fact that he drove away, leaving her lying there, she is speaking in his defense. She tells the same media outlet that she wasn’t pushed out, but rather fell out on her own during a panic attack.
Perkins says she called Townes to come pick herself and their 15-month daughter up. One the ride, the girl was crying in the carseat, so she climbed over the passenger seat to give her her pacifier. That’s when she had a panic attack.
“Sometimes I black out in my panic attacks,” she says. “So I just opened the door and I guess I tried to step out and it didn't work.”
She doesn’t have an explanation for why her boyfriend didn’t stop the car and she had to come out of her blackout and see strangers looking down on her. However, she insists he would never lay a hand on her.
“This morning I finally got on my phone,” she continues. “I was on Facebook and I had a bunch of people telling me that he pushed me out, and he did this to my face when nobody had seen me. So it just really upset me because it added more problems for me when it came to my daughter. Look at my face, this is all from the ground, you know.”
Townes’ family is also speaking up on his behalf, insisting he’s a nice guy who would never be violent to anyone. They don’t have an explanation for his fleeing the scene, either. Or for his prior conviction on domestic violence.
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