Somerville Man Assaulted Woman Outside Children's Party: PD

SOMERVILLE, MA – A Somerville man was arrested over the weekend after a woman said he punched her, kicked her and grabbed her by the hair and throat outside of a children's birthday party. The woman told police she was at her friend's apartment Saturday evening when 44-year-old Reginaldo Simao arrived uninvited and "appeared to be intoxicated," according to the police report.

The woman said she knew Simao and tried to speak with him outside the apartment.

"She then attempted to walk with him downstairs when Reginaldo started to punch her," according to the police report. "She stated the assault continued on the stairs to the second floor landing where he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her to the ground. When she was on the ground he then kicked her in her left thigh with his boot. She stated while on the ground he grabbed her by throat with one hand and applied substantial pressure that it became very hard for her to breathe."

The woman told police at one point Simao threatened to kill her, and partygoers intervened when she started screaming for help.

A witness who lives in the building said she saw Simao on the first floor holding a knife and threatening in Portuguese to kill everyone upstairs, the report stated. Simao's roommate told him to drop the knife, which he threw the back into the kitchen when officers arrived, according to police.

Simao was "loud and not cooperative" with the responding officers, police said. He was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, strangulation or suffocation and threatening to commit a crime.

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