Inset: Yanser Batista Daby (Johnson County Sheriff's Office). Background: H Street in Iowa City, Iowa (Google Maps).
An Iowa man who was ordered to stay away from his wife allegedly tried to kill her.
Yanser Batista Daby, 40, is in custody after police said he broke into the home of his wife and stabbed her. According to an affidavit obtained by local radio station KCJJ, police responded to a call from a home in Iowa City, Iowa, at 3:41 p.m. on Tuesday after receiving reports of a stabbing. When officers arrived, they found an unnamed woman suffering from stab wounds, including wounds to her face.
Police said the woman told them her husband, Batista Daby, had attacked her with a pair of scissors, tried to strangle her and slammed her head into the floor.
According to the affidavit, which was also obtained by local news outlet The Gazette, the woman ran to her neighbor's house to call for help after Batista Daby fled the scene on an e-bike. When officers searched the woman's home, they found a pair of scissors in a "pool of blood."
Officers found Batista Daby at his home, where they executed a search warrant and allegedly saw blood on his bike helmet and e-bike.
Police said the woman had a temporary restraining order against her husband issued on Sept. 16 after he allegedly previously attacked her. He violated that order in October and was ordered by a judge to serve two days in jail.
Batista Daby is charged with attempted murder, burglary, assault committed by a person against whom a protective order is issued, domestic abuse assault impeding air or blood flow, domestic abuse assault with display or use of a weapon, domestic abuse assault with intent to inflict serious injury, and violation of no contact or protective order. He is being held at the Johnson County Jail. His next court date was not immediately available.