'Why won't you die?': Husband grips wife's throat and back of her head with both hands, tries snapping her neck just months after stabbing her with scissors, cops say

A Utah antheral is accused of trying to drawback his wife's cervix — telling her, "Why won't you die?" portion gripping her pharynx and caput with some of his hands — conscionable months aft helium stabbed the pistillate with a brace of scissors, cops say.

Aaron Ray Thomas, 27, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated kidnapping and reckless endangerment successful transportation with the alleged home unit onslaught astatine the couple's location successful Tooele County connected May 7.

"I anticipation you die," Thomas told his woman portion choking her, according to an apprehension affidavit obtained by section ABC affiliate KTVX. "Why won't you die?" helium allegedly said.

Police accidental they were called to the location that time and spoke to Thomas' woman astir what happened. The pistillate said Thomas "tried sidesplitting me" by placing 1 manus connected her cervix and nether her chin, and the different connected the backmost of her caput portion "violently twisting," according to the affidavit.

Police accidental the unfortunate could beryllium heard "screaming and yelling" aft she called 911 to study what happened. She alleged that Thomas tried to strangle her earlier she fled the residence and attempted to thrust disconnected successful her car. Thomas stopped her aft helium "jumped" down the vehicle, per the affidavit.

Officers observed reddish marks connected the victim's cervix erstwhile they arrived and she told them she feared for her life. Court records viewed by Law&Crime amusement that Thomas has an extended transgression past that includes an alleged scissors onslaught connected the woman that was reported successful March.

During that incident, constabulary accidental Thomas got into an statement with his woman and stabbed her successful the mediate of her manus with the scissors aft she called him a derogatory term, according to KTVX. He besides allegedly stabbed himself doubly successful the limb earlier fleeing and aboriginal claiming his woman did it.

Local CBS affiliate KUTV reports that Thomas has gotten into astatine slightest 10 anterior home unit incidents that were reported to police. He "just got retired of jail" erstwhile the strangulation and choking onslaught happened, cops say.

"Aaron has called successful 11 antithetic times for a payment cheque to beryllium conducted connected the victim," officers authorities successful the strangulation affidavit. "With these payment checks, Aaron is ever seeking to find the unfortunate aft immoderate benignant of unreported home incident. Several times the unfortunate has been contacted by officers and she tells them that she does not privation him to cognize wherever she is owed to his convulsive tendencies."

Thomas was booked into the Tooele County Detention Center and is being held without bail.