Concord Man Racks Up Strangulation, Other Charges In The South End

CONCORD, NH — A man from Concord is facing nine charges, including two felonies, after being accused of strangling, threatening, imprisoning, and assaulting a woman in the South End on July 23.

Around 2:15 p.m., police were sent to South State Street for a disturbance where a woman claimed to be strangled and needed to jump out of a window to escape an assailant. The woman, who was at another person’s apartment nearby, was assisted by fire and rescue teams and taken to Concord Hospital. Before being taken, she identified the suspect as Andre Montaque Jackson, 53, of South State Street, and accused him of “consuming drugs” and forcing her to, too. She said he was probably still in the apartment, an affidavit said.

Police went to the apartment, saw that the front window had a ripped and torn screen and blinds, and entered the apartment. There was, however, no one inside. The reporting officer wrote the apartment was in disarray — with clothes, pillows, and other items scattered all over the floor, giving the appearance of a struggle.

Another officer went to the hospital to interview the victim, who broke down in tears twice during the interview. She said she had known Jackson for about nine years, and they had been dating off and on. The victim accused Jackson of coming home early that morning from a DJ gig in the Lakes Region with “a large quantity of cocaine.” He began snorting and smoking the drugs and ordered her to consume the cocaine with him even though she denied being a drug user, the affidavit said. When she refused, “Andre became aggressive and hostile” and threatened to “rape and kill her,” the report said.

The victim told police she felt trapped and began to use the cocaine but that he had become “extremely paranoid” and later locked her in a bedroom for fear they were being watched or recorded by police, the affidavit said. She was let out of the room hours later so she could walk a dog but accused Jackson of taking her cellphone so she could not try and get help.

At around 1:30 p.m., she attempted to leave, but “Andre placed her in a chokehold where he stood behind her with his right arm wrapped around her neck, squeezing and cutting off her airway,” the affidavit said.

“This is role-playing,” she accused him of screaming. “You like this!”

The victim said she was in and out of consciousness and thought she would suffocate. She said he moved her to a bedroom again and continued to be paranoid, thinking there were recording devices in the home, the report said. Jackson was accused of strangling her again while on a bed, and she could not break free. He kept asking her, as he was squeezing her neck if she called the police, she told the officer in the affidavit. She even tried to grab him by the testicles and squeeze them, but this, too, “was ineffective,” the affidavit said. She also said it felt as if her jaw was dislocated.

After about seven to 10 minutes, the victim slid out from underneath him, and he began to search the home again for listening devices, the report said. She attempted to escape from a window on the South Main Street side of the building, but he grabbed her again and pulled her back in, the report said. The victim broke away while screaming and then escaped through another window.

An officer took photos of her injuries which included redness on her neck and swelling around her eyes with fresh cuts and abrasions on her arms and bruising, too. X-rays showed she did not have any broken bones or serious bodily injuries.

While filling out the offense report, the officer said Jackson called police headquarters, and asked if they were looking for him.

“(He) said he did nothing wrong,” the officer wrote.

Jackson claimed the victim “does this often” and “plays the victim to the police,” the report said.

“Andre asked multiple times what his charges were going to be and said that he would turn himself in to the station,” the officer wrote. “I told Andre that if he is saying he did nothing wrong, then he would not have any charges against him. I asked Andre to come down to the station so I can positively identify him and hear his side of the story, but he refused to come to the station unless he knew his charges.”

A sergeant, who previously worked in Pembroke, told the reporting officer the couple had previously been involved in a domestic incident in that town.

A warrant was issued for Jackson’s arrest on July 24 on two felony second-degree assault-domestic violence-strangulation charges as well as false imprisonment, domestic violence-false imprisonment, criminal threatening, simple assault, and three domestic violence-simple assault charges. He was arrested on July 31 and now lives in Keene, according to police.

Jackson, according to superior court records, is a felon due to a burglary conviction in December 1990 in Hillsborough County Superior Court.

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