A Florida man is accused of kidnapping his girlfriend, beating her, and threatening to kill her and her family in an alleged display of domestic violence.

Nicolas Guy, 22, has been charged with kidnapping by false imprisonment, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, domestic battery by strangulation, making written threats to kill, and obstructing justice, per Palm Beach County court records.

The alleged confrontation began on Saturday, when the girlfriend picked Guy up from work at about 9 p.m. and brought him to his home in Riviera Beach. They had been dating for eight months.

While they were in his apartment complex parking lot, he “struck her in the left eye with a grinder and broke several fingernails on both of her hands,” the girlfriend told police. As she tried to defend herself, Guy picked her up, slammed her on the ground, and took her vehicle keys, according to a probable cause affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime. It is unclear what allegedly set the man off.

The suspect then “forced” the girlfriend to enter her car and “at some point, took away her cellphone and began driving in an unknown direction of travel,” the court document goes on.

The girlfriend is said to have realized they were near her workplace and asked him to take her there, but he “told her she could not go to work and continued driving.” He also wouldn’t let her call her job to inform them that she wouldn’t be coming, according to the girlfriend.

About 20 minutes later, Guy took them to the parking lot of a Malibu Bay apartment building on the 700 block of Malibu Bay Drive West in Palm Beach, about 6 miles south. It is unclear what significance this address held, but according to the alleged victim, as soon as they parked, “Guy immediately began physically attacking her in the parking lot.”

She told police she kept trying to get out of the vehicle, but he kept locking the doors, and at one point, he “grabbed her by the hair,” drove to the back of the lot, and parked. He then allegedly left the driver’s seat, “mounted her and began choking her with both hands.”

According to the affidavit, the more the girlfriend tried to fight back, the harder he would choke her. She cried and couldn’t breathe “and believed that Guy was going to kill her” before lying still in hopes he would assume she had passed out.

But the alleged violence did not end there. From the affidavit:

After Guy released his grips from around her neck, the victim stated he then retrieved a pocketknife described as a purple 2-3″ foldable purple knife, with a rainbow reflective steel blade and began yielding it towards her demanding that she give him the code to her phone so he could track her location. The victim stated, due to her refusing to unlock her phone, Guy began reaching across the seat waving the knife around and stating, “I have nothing to live for, I’ll kill you right now”. The victim advised, Guy repeatedly threatened to stab her or kill her.

She reportedly expressed her fear to her boyfriend, “so he placed the knife on his lap,” and she seized the opportunity to grab the knife and toss it out of the window of the vehicle. This allegedly enraged him.

He is said to have “grabbed her hair and began striking her head against the steering wheel of the vehicle as she yelled for him to stop.” During these moments, he also allegedly “threatened, by word and act, to do violence to the victim and at the time, Guy appeared to have the ability to carry out the threat.”

Still, he would not let her leave the vehicle, per the affidavit. At one point, he reportedly held the door closed so forcefully that he broke the vehicle’s passenger side mirror. They then left the parking lot and headed back to his home in Riviera Beach.

They went into his home and he fell asleep, the girlfriend said, but she had limited options. By her account, she couldn’t call for help because Guy had taken her phone, and she couldn’t return home because he had hidden her house and vehicle keys.

By the next morning, however, she had apparently found a way escape. She told police she had managed to find her house keys and get Guy to tell her where her vehicle keys were. She left and drove to work, where she felt she could safely call 911.

She told police that Guy keeps an assault-style Wilson Combat ARP pistol in a backpack that he often keeps on his porch. The victim told police that “Guy pointed the gun at her in the past and has even come to her home, sat in front of her home with the gun in hand and fired several shots in the air.”

The victim had also “observed Guy walking down the street in her neighborhood demanding her to pick him up,” the affidavit continued. “According to the victim. Guy sat in the church parking lot across from her home for approximately seven (7) hours.”

The suspect “repeatedly called her phone and sent multiple text messages threatening to kill her, her father, her aunt and her grandmother,” the affidavit said, quoting the girlfriend as saying “she believes Guy has the ability to carry out his threats and is afraid he may kill her and her family.”

The alleged threats continued on Monday. A number linked to Guy reportedly texted the girlfriend things such as “Daddy gon catch a 223 to da skull” — in an apparent reference to a bullet — and “Just like ya dead ass grand daddy.”

The suspect also allegedly texted her, “Bet soon as u hear 1 pop get low im tryn hit ya daddy first so he can join his daddy real quick” and “N ima make you feel it watch I swear I am”.

When police spoke with the girlfriend, they noticed her hair was “visibly lifted from her scalp” and she had a “visible eye injury (consisting of a large area of swollen skin above and underneath the victim’s eye).”

Guy was arrested on Wednesday and is being held on a $50,000 bond. He had his first court appearance on Thursday and is set to return on Oct. 24.

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