- November 8, 2024
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When a Palm Coast woman got a ride home from a concert with an unfamiliar man, her live-in boyfriend beat her up and put a wooden rifle stock — inoperable, but real looking — in her mouth and said, “I should blow you away,” the woman told deputies.
The alleged incident happened Aug. 20 at the home of Charles Daniel Brentzel on Zenger Court in Palm Coast, according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit.
The woman called the 911 from a neighbor’s phone at about 5:50 a.m.
She was “screaming that her boyfriend, later determined to be Charles Brentzel III, beat her up,” that she was covered in blood and didn’t know where it was coming from, and that Brentzel, 26, had put a gun in her mouth, according to the affidavit.
A deputy who met her at the neighbor’s house wrote in the affidavit that he saw fresh swelling around her right eye, lacerations on both her knees and her right wrist and blood on her legs.
She told the deputy she’d gotten home from a concert in Daytona Beach at about 4 a.m. after hitching a ride with a stranger. Brentzel was mad at her. She thought the reason was that she’d gotten a ride home from a man late at night.
The couple argued, and he knocked a glass of water from her hand and then knocked a chair out from under her as tried to sit down, making her fall, she told the deputy.
Then, “Brentzel grabbed her by the hair and dragged her on her knees to the front door,” where he hit her across the face, smashed her face against the ground and told her to leave, she told a deputy, according to the affidavit.
The woman walked out on the road and began walking away, but then turned back “for a reason she cannot explain,” according to the report.
Brentzel found her on a futon on the porch.
He came at her with a rifle, placed the muzzle in her mouth, and threatened to kill her, she told a deputy. That’s when she ran for the neighbor’s house.
A deputy who checked the house found an inoperable wooden rifle stock, noting in the affidavit that, “At first glance, the wooden stock appeared to be a rifle.”
It did not contain working mechanical parts. But the deputy noted “what appeared to be hair belonging to a female … wedged in between the metal piece and the wooden stock.” When a deputy showed the woman a picture of the wooden rifle stock, she confirmed that the stock was what Brentzel had threatened her with. She said she’d thought it was a real rifle.
Brentzel denied pointing anything at the woman, and said he didn’t live with her. He said that when he heard banging on the door in the early morning, he thought there was a possible intruder. “Mr. Brentzel’s statement in reference to if he knew (the woman) changed several times,” a deputy wrote in the affidavit.
A man who’d been visiting Brentzel’s home that night said that the woman lived with Brentzel and that he’d heard them arguing. He and Brentzel had had some alcoholic beverages that night, he said.
A deputy checking the house wrote in the affidavit that there was blood all over the floor and a puddle of blood near the porch futon, and that Brentzel had a cut across his foot that was “bleeding excessively." The deputy found a broken glass on the floor amidst trails of bloody footprints.
Deputies arrested Brentzel and charged him with one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of simple domestic battery. He was released from jail on $10,000 bond.
