Report: Domestic Violence Deaths Have Increased Over Past Year

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Network against Domestic Violence releases its annual report and the results are disturbing. Domestic violence deaths increased over the past year.

Days after police find the body of Tonja Chadwick, they charge her boyfriend Marco Holmes with murder.

Tonja was last seen alive January 28, her body found February 2 in a southwest Baltimore park.
Her mother told WJZ there was a history of violence.

“She called me and said he choked her until she blacked out and woke up shaking,” says Tonja’s mother.

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