By Joe Johnson
A Clarke County grand jury has indicted an Athens man on multiple felony charges in connection with an assault earlier this year in which he strangled his mother and beat her with a hammer.
Thomas Cassidy Lindsey, 40, was charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and family violence battery, according to the indictment filed Tuesday in Superior Court.
A police report indicates that the incident occurred the evening of March 3, when Lindsey was at his mother’s apartment on Sussex Drive and a family member told him that he needed to leave and “not to bother them anymore.”
At the time, Andrea Frost was outside on a patio, when her son came out, grabbed her by the throat, lifted her off the ground, and threw her to the ground.
According to the report, Frost said that Lindsey got on top of her and, with his knees on her chest, started to hit her with a hammer knocking out some of her teeth.
During the attack, Lindsey said to his mother, “I told you I’d kill you this time, bitch,” according to a police officer’s arrest warrant affidavit.
Lindsey stopped the assault when his girlfriend went outside to investigate the commotion, at which time he fled from the scene, according to the police report.
When police officers arrived at the scene, they saw that Frost’s face was covered with blood, and she had a laceration on her forehead. She was transported by ambulance to Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center.
In charging Lindsey with aggravated assault, the grand jury alleges that he had the intent to murder his mother by strangulation, twisting her neck in an attempt to break it.
Lindsey was released from custody when he posted $10,000 bail three weeks after his arrest.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on October 29.