Police officers had to shock a father and son with stun guns during a domestic violence call Sunday night, in which one suspect tried to shove a cop off a second-floor balcony, a report released Monday says.
William Tamkun, 67, and Daniel Tamkun, 28, both of 139 Haystack Road, face multiple charges related to the initial complaint by Daniel Tamkun’s girlfriend and the pair’s response once officers arrived at the house.
A woman called police at about 8:30 p.m. saying she had locked herself in a bathroom at that address and someone was trying to force open the door. Officer Christina Sampaio wrote in her report that she arrived at the home shortly after two other officers and could hear over the radio an officer shouting, “Show me your hands!” and “Back up!”
Sampaio ran upstairs, where William Tamkun confronted her in a bedroom doorway “and started screaming at me as spit flew from his mouth onto my face,” the report says. Inside the bedroom, Sgt. Christopher Morrissey and Officer Timothy LeVesque were struggling to control Daniel Tamkun, Sampaio wrote.
She tried to pull William Tamkun away from the room, but he shoved her with both hands and she stumbled back into the hallway as he continued to approach, Sampaio wrote. He then pushed Sampaio into a wall and tried to knock her off the second-floor balcony, the report said.
William Tamkun ignored Sampaio’s commands and ran back into the bedroom as Morrissey fired a stun gun at Daniel Tamkun, the report said. The older man again turned his attention to Sampaio until LeVesque hit him with stun gun probes and he fell to the floor, the report said. Two other officers arrived and helped get the suspects into custody, Sampaio wrote.
The woman who had called 911 had a bruise on her neck — the result, she told police, of Daniel Tamkun choking her. The trouble started, she said, when she confronted him about sneaking gulps of vodka from a hidden bottle, the report said. The woman said Daniel Tamkun pinned her on a bed and started choking her until she could not breath, the report said.
She said she was able to break away, run into a bathroom and call police on her cellphone. While she was in the bathroom, William Tamkun yelled at her that if she did not open the door, she would never be allowed to visit again, the report said.
Daniel Tamkun faces charges that include second-degree strangulation, unlawful restraint and interfering with police. William Tamkun faces charges that include assault on public safety personnel and interfering with police.
Jesse Leavenworth can be reached at jleavenworth@courant.com.
