Assault, kidnapping suspect turns self in, says he didn’t do it

The man wanted by multiple agencies for allegedly brutally beating a woman surrendered early Wednesday morning to Boone County Sheriff’s Deputies, with ABC 17 News there.

Brandon Terrell called ABC 17 News and asked us to escort him to the jail and share his side of the story before he turned himself in.

Terrell said he never hit the woman, although they were together Monday night when he was accused of the assault. Read the full details of the attack here.

“That’s just not true. Yes, she was with me and yes, I picked her up from her house and she drove from her house to where we was at, and we was talking and what not. And she just flipped out and took off running and that was that,” Terrell explained. “And the marks on her face had been there for five days now.”

He said wasn’t sure how those cuts and bruises got there five days earlier, but claimed he had no part in it.

“No, I never put my hands on that girl. Like, we have been into it and I have maybe you know, been a little rough, but I never did the things they say I did. That’s all I’m going to say, I never went to extremes like that,” Terrell said.

Terrell does admit to past domestic violence, but said he served his time for them.

“I’m not a perfect person, I’ve been into it,” he said. “And I did my time for whatever I was convicted of.”

He’s had convictions dating 10 years back, ranging from attempted burglary to stalking to violating protection orders, and several counts of domestic assault.

But he said he is not the violent man authorities paint him out to be.

“I’m me, I’m not a crazy person,” he said.

Terrell is being held in the Boone County Jail without bond. Sheriff’s deputies said the judge denied bond because of the severity of the attack and Terrell’s criminal past.

He’s facing charges of domestic assault and kidnapping in Boone County and charges of domestic assault and stalking in Cooper County.