GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A homeless man is facing multiple charges after two domestic violence-related incidents over a three-week span.
26-year-old Levi B. Simmons is charged separately with strangulation/suffocation, substantial battery/domestic abuse, along with battery, disorderly conduct and intimidation of a domestic abuse victim.
The first incident took place October 15 and 16 in Green Bay. According to that criminal complaint, police were called to a home in the 1600 block of W. Mason Street around 6:40 a.m. on October 15. A friend of the alleged victim got a phone call from her around 5 a.m. from an Ashwaubenon motel, and she sounded upset.
The alleged victim went to the motel with her and Simmons’ child to celebrate his birthday. But the woman to her that Simmons, “Snapped” on her while they were having sex. Simmons had followed the vehicle used to take the alleged victim and her child back to the friend’s apartment.
Simmons pulled up next to the parked vehicle, while the friend told the victim to remain in the vehicle. Simmons was, “Argumentative with her and proceeded to walk around to the passenger’s side of the car, open the door, reached in and grabbed the victim by the arm.” An argument between Simmons and the victim began.
The friend took the child from the vehicle, gave the child to its mom and told her to go inside. The friend tried stopped Simmons from following the woman, and Simmons said, “Bitch, get out of my face!” Simmons then hit a coffee mug out of her hand, then went inside the apartment.
A text message was sent by the friend to her neighbor before Simmons shoved her away from the outer doorway to the building, while she tried blocking Simmons from going inside. The neighbor appeared outside of her door, but Simmons shoved her aside as he continued to pursue the victim.
Simmons then grabbed the victim, and began shaking her while she cried. The victim was holding the couple’s child at the time. The friend tried to intervene, but Simmons punched her in the head with a closed fist. Simmons also swung at the victim multiple times, but she managed to duck and block the punches.
Simmons then hit the friend a second time on her head, but she pushed Simmons away causing him to fall back two steps down the landing. The police were then called by the neighbor. Simmons was then seen taking another swing at the victim, while she was seated on the stairs crying.
The victim is afraid of Simmons, according to the friend, but doesn’t want him to go to jail because, “She fears what he will do when he is released.”
The next day, police were dispatched back to the West Mason Street apartment building where the events took place before. The neighbor called the cops because she thought Simmons was outside the building. The victim’s friend again spoke to officers and was visibly upset.
She told officers that the victim called her earlier and warned that Simmons was very upset about being wanted by the police. Simmons told the victim that, “If he’s going to jail, there’s going to be a real reason for him to go to jail.” The friend was so scared, she grabbed her daughter and fled the apartment.
The victim was located later that day, and told officers she didn’t want to provide a statement because she is, “Terrified Simmons would kill her when he gets out of jail.”
She told police that she got a phone call at 10:44 a.m. from Simmons, who was angry and he questioned her as to why his probation agent said he battered her.
She told Simmons that she didn’t press charges yesterday. Simmons said he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest now, with the victim telling him that he shouldn’t have hit the other women and he shouldn’t have hit her.
Simmons responded angrily, “Well let me tell you, if I’m going to jail, I’m going to jail for a real reason, bitch! There’s gonna be a real reason!” She swore at Simmons before hanging up on him.
The victim also told police that she began getting texts from Simmons calling her a,” Police ass bitch”.
According to the second criminal complaint, the Brown County Sheriff’s Department were called to a hospital around 3:18 a.m. on November 6 for a report of a female attacked at a Howard residence.
A deputy spoke with a nurse, who said the victim suffered injuries to her ribs, neck and back. The victim, who was the same woman as before, said that she and her son had been staying with Simmons’ brother since November 4.
The victim said she was babysitting his four children and her son, and was called by Simmons to have dinner with her and the kids.
On November 5, the victim says that Simmons was verbally abusive and accusing her of sleeping around throughout the day. The woman, who was staying at the Golden House, and returned to Simmons’ brother’s place.
Upon returning, Simmons was smoking in the garage. The victim put the children to bed, then sat on the couch with Simmons, who kept asking for sex. She told Simmons she didn’t want to because he had been treating her badly.
Simmons allegedly grabbed her sweatpants and her tank top, while yelling, “You’ll @#$% him, but you won’t @#$% me, bitch.” The victim became frightened and ran out the front door. Simmons chased her, caught up to her and dragged her back into the house.
She says they kept arguing and eventually Simmons took a smoke break in the garage. The victim then decided to take her son, and go upstairs to the kids’ bedroom because she thought it would be safer.
Simmons went after her, screaming, “Who the @#$% you calling, bitch? Police?” He kept yelling at her, then grabbed her by the neck with both hands and lifted her off the bed. She was yelling at this point, then Simmons replied, “Tell Rico about this then, bitch!”
Simmons then punched her with a closed fist to the left side of her rib cage. She thought Simmons hit her as hard as he could because she could barely breathe from the pain. Simmons went downstairs, and the victim was still afraid to call 911, but she was able to call Simmons’ sister-in-law.
All the victim could do was cry on the phone, because she didn’t want Simmons to hear her talking. The sister-in-law arrived after Simmons already left the home, and took the victim to the hospital.
The doctor at the hospital told a deputy that the victim suffered 3 broken ribs and a pulmonary contusion with bleeding in her lung. She made need surgery.
All charges against Levi Simmons have “repeater” enhancers, following his 2007 conviction of robbery with use of force in Fond du Lac County.
Simmons is due back in Brown County Circuit Court on February 19 for an adjourned initial appearance. If convicted on all counts, Simmons faces more than 20 years in prison.
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