Man charged with attempted homicide
A Daisytown man faces charges including attempted homicide and strangulation after California police reportedly saw him with his hands around the neck of his estranged wife while answering a domestic call at her home early Wednesday afternoon.
Ryan Michael Ziemba, 27, of 37 Daisy Lane, Coal Center, also is charged with reckless endangerment and two counts of harassment.
Police were called to an apartment at 37 Daisy about 12:30 p.m. after a 911 dispatcher got a call from a woman who reported that a man, who was wanted, was at her home and she did not want him in the residence.
California and West Pike police arrived at the home and could hear a woman, later identified as Ziemba’s 25-year-old estranged wife, yelling “Get off me.” The door was open and police said they could see a man, identified as Ziemba, with his hands around the neck of the alleged victim. Police pulled him off her and placed him in handcuffs.
Police could see red marks on the woman’s neck. When an officer asked what happened, she told them the argument started the previous day when he hit and bit her. Police also saw black and blue marks on the woman.
Ziemba was placed in Westmoreland County Prison on a domestic relations bench warrant. He is expected to be arraigned on the charges filed by California police before District Judge Joshua Kanalis later this week.