On Monday evening, it was not yet known where Hudson got the black-handled knife he used against Hamer, Carroll said. The two men did stop at the Wal-Mart on the southeast side of Anderson, where Hamer purchased clothing for Hudson to wear during the hearing.

DOMESTIC BATTERY

Hudson was in jail on Monday morning because he had been arrested and charged with domestic battery three weeks ago.

On June 10 at 9:50 p.m., Anderson police were dispatched to the corner of 21st and Jefferson streets after receiving reports of a possible fight in progress. Arriving on scene, officers found no indication of a fight and left the premises. They were called back to the area 10 minutes later to investigate reports of a man and woman screaming at one another.

According to the probable cause affidavit, Anderson police Detective Jake Brooks responded to the scene and reported hearing a woman “crying hysterically.”

He followed the screaming voices to an upstairs apartment in the 600 block of East 21st Street.

Brooks then reported finding Hudson and a woman inside the apartment.

Generally, The Herald Bulletin does not release victims’ names.

The woman, as reported by Brooks, had a swollen and bruised right eye and a cut on her arm.

When Brooks and assisting officers interviewed the woman, she claimed that the fight started over drugs. “They were fighting since they ran out of crack cocaine and Richard was mad at her for talking to friends about their relationship problems,” Brooks noted in the police report.

The report also indicated that the woman said Hudson would “kill her as soon as he gets out of jail.”

On June 23, the woman filed a protective order against Hudson, reporting additional abuse.

The woman wrote that Hudson had punched her in the arm, eye and knee that night. She claimed that he dragged her from the front porch into the house. She said he also attempted to throw her down the stairs and repeatedly struck her in the face.

Hudson had been in jail since the incident, unable to post bond.